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

[Allan McRae]

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.
>   

Not going to happen...  well at least not by the official dev team.  And 
every community based proect to make a stable Arch branch has failed 
(although the last one got much closer than any previous attempts).

Allan