[arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Dec 23, 2011 5:43 PM, "Ralf Madorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 10:22 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > The 22/12/11, Angel Velásquez wrote:
> >
> > > The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to you ..
> > > PLEASE READ THE NEWS DUDE, (its like the 5th time you write a mail
> > > asking questions, when the solution it's posted on the front page)..
> > >
> > > Don't you think you're big enough to learn this amazing trick?
> >
> > OTOH, news related to updates are *not* at the correct place on the home
> > web page. When I do admin tasks I would expect to read news in my
> > _shell_ just before the update.
>
> +1
>
> Some news might be no news anymore, it's not for everybody useful to
> upgrade the Linux very often.

Then perhaps there are better distros to use then Arch for the purpose
>
> I got all upgrade information using Google e.g. linked to the news.
> Anyway I wonder why people aren't allowed to ask every question. There
> were not hundred people asking about mtab at this list, just one person
> and this person might have missed the information by the news.

Perhaps looking at the person's prior posting history would be a good idea.
This wasn't a frivolous complaint made randomly.