Space Station Lambda

Pacman is the package manager that once having used, you don’t want to go back to others.

Why? Simplicity!

My personal highlights in the new version:

• Support for xdelta diffs: binary diffs so I can go back to previous package versions if the current one is borked. Previously one had to hope to have the old version in the cache or find some outdated mirror.
• --ignorearch option for makepkg

— no more hacking of PKGBUILD files that don’t have arch information.

• Topological sorting for dependencies: I suspect this is responsible for the speed-up I noticed.
• Massive optimization and speed-up for --owns: finding the package a certain file belongs to is a function I often need.
• single mirrorfile: finally a centralized place for the mirror list.

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Arch has been missing some important packages, so I put them up in AUR:

• industrializer great industrial sound synthesizer
• jack_capture CLI tool to record from JACK to WAV and FLAC. KISS philosophy.
• ams AlsaModularSynth is not a new package, but it was broken due to Qt transition. Fixed.
• vocoder-ladspa LADSPA vocoder plugin.
• kaconnect Qt version of aconnect utility.

The Linux Audio User list has started a virtual jam session, the current state of which can be seen at http://lau-cb.peterlutek.com.

Happy music making!

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The gimpfx-foundry package offers a bunch of Scheme scripts for the Gimp.
After installing you should be able to use them right away.

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