On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
If I notice that a new app or an update of an existing one has included a new major version of a library, I will in time probably update or recompile everything to use the new library as well. It would typically be a matter of some days.
Just do not expect me to do that *immediately*. I do expect that any apps that I didn't update continue to work until I update them. This means that the previous library version must not be removed. I don't keep a system as a toy and for the pleasure of keeping it up to date. I need it to do my work, and having to do a complete system update at an unexpected time is not helping at all. Even less if that complete system update results in the machine locking up and /me having to spend some hours manually repairing file systems and installed packages. As happened today.
It is *required* to do only complete system updates when using Arch. Partial updates are not supported, *by design*.