The wonders of pacman - portable?

Having set up such a nice kde environment today, I decided I no longer needed my gnome install.
So it was with some trepidation I looked through my history and had a look at what I had installed to set up gnome. Put them all together and then did:
pacman -Rcs gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-monitor alacarte gnome-system-tools gdesklets avant-window-navigator gdm-themes
Looking at the list of things it wanted to remove, the only thing it wanted to remove that I had installed before any of it was exaile. Still, with a list of 144 packages, it's a wonder it didn't tear into my xfce-install to remove packages there. Simply the best package manager around.
I am wondering if it would be possible to port it to other systems like debian or suse (imagine suse running with this - yum, uh I mean delightful)? If so has anyone ever tried this on their box?

alex_anthony wrote:Wouldn't that basically be a fully installed arch system, with some guis added?
i was wondering about something similar too...
It would be pointing to Suse repositories, which means you'd be getting Suse packages. I think Suse devs apply some patches and whatnot to their packages, which isn't done in Arch. It's also not as cutting edge if I recall correctly. The biggest differences would be in the underlying system, too ... or at least I'd assume. I've never used Suse, but I doubt it has the nice clean KISS approach that Arch takes. No easy to modify rc.conf file.
Last edited by bslagowski (2008-05-02 17:22:23)

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