dumb question maybe, but where is the full source of arch Linux? My understanding is that its just vanilla Linux that uses the pacman package manager.

Am I wrong in saying the pacman is the Arch source? Or is there more going on in the tar ball?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cheers! It looks like this is then the PKGBUILD

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/base/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads

In which case, there are no packages defined there which are Arch specific except pacman. So... pacman is the Arch source, right?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of these packages have Arch-specific modifications. For example, filesystem doesn't even have a non-Arch upstream as it defines the filesystem layout. That PKGBUILD and everything it depends on is the Arch source. Distributions are defined by which packages they include.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

ah, thanks for the clarification!