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

[G. Schlisio]

Am 23.12.2011 11:29, schrieb Alexander van den Berghe:
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> On 12/23/2011 10:43 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 10:22 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>>> The 22/12/11, Angel Velásquez wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>> Some news might be no news anymore, it's not for everybody useful to
>> upgrade the Linux very often.
> For such people it is not advised to use a rolling release 
> distribution such as Arch. Using Arch without updating often enough is 
> asking for problems.
>> 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.
>>
>> I read tons of threads on Arch forums and I had to read hundreds of
>> times replies saying "use Google", "search the Wiki", "search the forum"
>> + tons of misinformation from experts aka moderators, since they
>> sometimes not really experts for everything.
>>
>> - Ralf
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> It is frustrating for people to see the same questions asked over and 
> over. Especially while the solution can be easily found on the home 
> page, wiki or forums. These kind of questions just pollute the medium 
> through which they where asked with noise, which makes it more 
> difficult to find the good information.
>
> Alex
>
maybe not the right place here, but has to be mentioned IMHO:
the search restriction for the forum at archlinux.org is really 
annnoying. i like doing intense research before asking, but the 
one-search-per-minuite limit (or something about that) is making that 
difficoult for me.
ok, there are good reasons for that as well, but annoying anyways…