Hi, I believe that having system still-up-to-date is one of the basic ideas of Arch. If you want to have snapshot just waint until your system is "stable enough" and then don't do pacman -Syu for some time :-) On Tuesday 17 March 2009 23:19:07 Ali H. Caliskan wrote:
Hi,
I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum, I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days or weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling release into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained packages, comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a great way of using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next snapshot release. I'm not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of a rolling state. Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of closing bugs. Not to mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned packages as well.
Regards,
Ali
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