[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

[Dan Vratil]

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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