[arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Jan 22 19:57:25 EST 2009


Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dan Vratil <progdan at progdansoft.com> wrote:
>   
>> Also, could please someone confirm me, that KDE 4.1 freezes when updating?
>> After some package was updated, Plasma went frozen and I had to shutdown the X
>> server and finnish the update from console.
>>     
>
> This could be serious. If, for some reason, you are updating something
> like bash and dependent libraries at the same time, the upgrade could
> be aborted when bash is updated but dependent libs are not, breaking
> bash. It's probably not likely, but is a possibility (it did happen to
> be once a long time ago)
>   

Isn't it usually recommended to be outside your DE when doing a major DE 
upgrade.

Allan





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