On 07/05/10 15:48, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held<mail@hehejo.de> wrote:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/
* If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts with gvim. This is the expected behavior. Installation of vim and gvim separately is no longer required, the gvim package now installs vim as well.
-- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de
This is a rolling release, not an LTS. There is no excuse to not be updating regularly and reading the news. If its a production machine and you are worried about breakage maybe you shouldnt be running arch on it. The ML, forums, and irc are full of people who refuse to read the news or update regularly, and we all waste time answering questions that with proper arch maintenance would ensure that they never come up.
Really dude? you complain about him wasting time when you could find the time to dig up some old mail that was answered ages ago to attack the guy for asking questions? He didn't have to lookup anything. This is likely the 2-3rd time that he has asked about stuff that has been covered in the news or extensively on the forums and what not. David Rankin posts the most new topics on
On 05/07/2010 11:54 AM, Nathan Wayde wrote: this list, many of which, are elementary and/or off-topic and belong to the forums.
I'm sure we can all agree that it's important for an Arch user to be more independent and put more effort into solving our own problem but did you know you can simply ignore any of these questions?
Post on the forum, that is why it exists. Arch-general is generally aimed for more advance issues that haven't been covered else where. The mailing list should have a much higher technical level than the forums.
It doesn't take any effort since the bulk of the issue was already in the title.
It wastes my bandwidth and results in more crap to filter out.
To be honest I simply cannot take this kind of negativity. I would really like for this kind of attitude to stay away from Arch because it's not nice and it's the very thing I hate about the Linux community in general.
This is the attitude that has made arch the way it is. It's all these new comers from "soft" distros that are trying to change it. Back in 05 and 06 it was common place to receive a google link for a question like this. Is their a limit, of course, but arch is not the distro to sugar coat and hold peoples hands! Don't like it start a fork! If start letting arch become a easy entry distro then we'll end up with another ubuntu, fedora, suse, etc... @David Rankin 1. Update regularly - at least one time a week 2.1. Subscribe to arch-announce 2.2. http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ 2.3. Set http;//home.archlinux.ca as you homepage 3. Google whenever you have a problem 4. For stuff not directly related to arch, aka a problem with a package, cool themes, etc... post in the forums. It is a much more open environment.