What goes into maintaining an Arch system?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/archlinux

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  • archweb

    Arch Linux website code

  • As for updating Arch, check the main website page ( https://archlinux.org/ ) anything that requires manual intervention to keep it working is posted there.

  • pacman-hooks

    Arch Linux Pacman hooks (by desbma)

  • If configuration, that you have changed, become updated, you will have to review the changes and decide how to merge them. Pacman stores the changes in a "pacnew/pacsave"-File. But there's a pacdiff-pacman-hook to notify you about pacnew/pacase-files.

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  • web

    ALG Website Source Code (by arch-linux-gui)

  • manjaro is a completely different distribution with different repos, and not all AUR packages are guaranteed to work with manjaro if manjaro doesn't supply the right dependency versions. if you actually want an installer like that for arch linux, use something like this: https://archlinuxgui.in/

  • tensorflow

    An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

  • Python 3.9 being installed in an update almost immediately after it was released even though warnings about incompatibilities, rendering many packages unworkable for months (just look at the timescale on this. Python 3.10 necessitated users rebuilding their AUR packages

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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