[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:25:16 +0100, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>  
wrote:
> Am 23.01.2013 11:10, schrieb arnaud gaboury:
>> Let me clarify a few things.
>> 1- I didn't correctly understand the post from Allan about toolchain,  
>> thus
>> my brocken update when #pacman - S filesystem
>
> Then why do you use testing?
>
>> 2- As a newbye,
>
> Then why do you use testing?

Perhaps the OP needs a clarification. Arch Linux is a rolling release, you  
usually get latest software versions for a regular Arch install. For my  
taste sometimes the versions come to the repository too fast (at the  
moment I take a rest from Arch Linux, but I still recommend to use it and  
will use it in the future myself again). It's not comparable to testing of  
"release distros", were for stable releases software sometimes is outdated  
for the needs of some users and developers.

When you are experienced using testing is helpful, to test new packages,  
since this would help the community. As long as you're a novice, you very  
unlikely will benefit from using testing.

pacman -Syuu ;)

Regards,
Ralf