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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:55:12 +0100
Kristoffer Fossgård <kfs1 at online.no> wrote:

> I think this already exists to some extent.
> 
> It's called "new cd/dvd installer image", that is, whenever the Arch
> team releases a new installer, which is supposed to be every month
> now? 

what? every month? are you crazy :)

> or follow kernel releases, then they have to approach a minimum
> level of stability. I suppose an idea could be to only -Syu whenever
> arch has a new "release". That way atleast, you will get a bit more
> "stable" arch.
> 
> If this is not enough you will have to create/helpout the stable
> arch project/wiki.
> 
> -K

I don't think that would change anything.  Sure, every time you do an
update some things might change and might require a bit of work.  All
of the snapshot/... stuff proposals are just about delaying updates
(and the associated work)

Arch is not, and will never be about automatically changing
configurations and things like that.  A snapshotting system also won't
change that.

Dieter