On 07/24/2012 01:15 AM, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
The beauty behind this is we are now enjoying the new paradigm without reinstalling the system while with other distros your only chance to make the switch is reinstall not only your OS but everything else! Cheers.
Now that... is the beauty of Arch! The other distro's release/reinstall cycle is far more work than the rolling-release. But, after packaging trinity on Arch, I can tell you it is a double-edge sword. You get everything building just fine until the next pacman -Syu and then 5 packages quit building due to package updates (libpng, ffmpeg, gcc, on-and-on, ...) Literally you can kick off a build in the morning, then update and have it go to hell in the evening. It gives you a great deal of respect for the sheer amount of work the Arch developers put into this disto.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.