auto configuration systems

[Tom H]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> for this purpose you are simply using the wrong distro. I've got Ubuntu
> installed to help users with some Linux domains, mainly Linux
> pro-audio. Ubuntu's policy has advantages and pitfalls.
>
> To make a long story short, my daily Linux and audio DAW is Arch Linux.
> Arch Linux doesn't have such a policy as Ubuntu has got, to auto-start
> everything that could be auto-started. Other than Ubuntu, Arch Linux
> follows upstream as close as possible, IOW there aren't split packages
> or any other unusual surprises, such as e.g. distro specific patches.
> Arch Linux is a real rolling-release, not like Debian with a freeze.
> Arch Linux doesn't have any releases.
>
> What you need to do is migrating to another distro, IOW to Arch Linux
> or another distro with a similar policy.
>
> By migrating to a distro that fits closer to your approach, you at
> least wouldn't need to run that many "manifests" and you unlikely would
> need to edit those "manifests" that often. Depending on what concrete
> you try to archive, you might not need any "manifests" at all.

This is all illogical. Unless someone wants to use the exact defaults
of all upstreams, it's not more difficult to set your own configs when
using Ubuntu than when using Arch.