On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:29:36AM +0100, Sébastien Mazy wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
Not everyone uses the two major DEs either. You are supposed to be able to rollback to previous releases your self anyway. Theres an awesome wiki page about it: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
Thanks for the link. Actually I know how to downgrade but should a non negligeable amount of users have to downgrade manually?
If everyone's box has to be broken for a package to be rolled-back, maybe a simple news could be posted on the front page, for example: "package x introduced a problem for some users with app y and z, downgrade to previous package x if you're impacted". I think I'm not the only one to check the news before updating, and even if it's posted several days after the update was pushed, it's still good to know for those who haven't updated yet.
BTW my point is not that updates should be perfect. I know devs have limited time resources.
I understand your concerns. But look at the bright side. At least you know what the problem is. It could be much worst. :) An Arch Linux system is not and will not be, at least anu time soon, a system that doesnt require user interaction. Things like that will always happen to some extend. A new libxi is already out: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-February/044061.html I dont think news items like that are a solution, otherwise the webpage would be filled with stuff like that. -- Greg