Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiWhat would you change?
Pommes_für_dein_BalgArch only breaks if you don’t read the wiki.
Update the repo’s gpg keys, read the Arch news, do what manual steps they mention and you can update it after a year and it won’t break.
QuinnyCodedwith all due respect to the arch project and all, but I don’t wanna do all that just to update my PC
It’s not more hassle than updating other distros after one year, cause they’ll throw a whole new major version at you. Here’s Debian’s upgrade instructions for a comparison:
www.debian.org/releases/…/upgrading.en.html
What I wrote fits in a 6 line bash script, and there are much more sophisticated ready-made updaters available, too.
Except, if any random program that you want to install requires a new version of a low-level library, you’re gonna have to do full system update today and not when upgrading the major version of the distro.
This is all entirely theoretical. In practice, yes, it’s easier if you don’t go too long between updates on Arch.
But “not to long” means once a month, not every day. And you should really not go more than a month between updates on any distro.
But “not to long” means once a month, not every day. And you should really not go more than a month between updates on any distro.
This is all entirely theoretical.
If you mean the system being screwed over by a dependency on a newer lib version, I’ve had that exact scenario triggered multiple times in Debian testing.
FancyApp depends on libbutt >= 1.1. You have 1.0 installed.
libbutt 1.1 was compiled against glibc 2.43 and lists it as a dependency. You have 2.42.
Upgrading glibc triggers reinstalling half of the system, including low-level components, which in turn pull in updates of other low-level components that don’t themselves depend on glibc. Including the kernel.