I actually asked juan rp about that plist thing, he said it was because he had experience with it on netbsd with proplib, which he then ported as portable proplib: https://github.com/xtraeme/portableproplib.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Teodoro Santoni <asbras...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 2016-05-11 12:56 GMT+02:00, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk>: >> Hi folks, >> >> A few nights ago my too-expensive laptop met with too-cheap wine and now >> it is a far-too-expensive brick. As it's therefore time for me to >> install a new OS on a new laptop, I was wondering what people would >> recommend. I've been using Debian Stable for years now, which while it >> sucks does work well enough that I don't have to think about it very >> much, so I can do more interesting things with my time. But particularly >> after reading a few good articles about issues with debian [0] [1] I >> find myself wondering if there's a better option out there. A rolling >> release distribution would be fine with me, but only if it didn't break >> often at all; I enjoyed using Gentoo years ago when I was a student, but >> keeping it working took a lot of time that I do not want to dedicate to >> keeping a working system these days. I'd like to try something like >> morpheus [2], but I suspect that would take quite a lot of time and >> energy to get going and maintain. > > I've used Void Linux for some times now. > The only thing that breaks sometimes it's the package manager > and its build tree. But 99% of the time it turns up without any intervention. > More on it: it doesn't seem so shitty when you use it (I find it > better than apt), > but uses xml files (.plist) as package database. > If you'll give up with Gentoo, i recommend it. > -- Aditya Goturu "The most dangerous phrase in the language is, We’ve always done it this way" - Grace Hopper Pubkey 4096R/727CEEED on pgp.mit.edu.
