On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:08:38PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: > Hello all, > > First I want to start off by expressing my satisfaction with the Arch > Linux distribution. I've played with about six of them and broke them > all within the first week except for this one. Very hackable and does > what I want it to do without fuss. Nice job. > > Now, it doesn't seem as though packages are always updated to link with > newer libs. For instance, I got the new ncurses build a few days ago. > Today, when I checked out snownews, it would not work because it was not > linked against the new ncurses library. Of course, using the ABS > PKGBUILD file to build my own from source fixed the problem but thought > I would alert you all anyways. It was complaining about not being able > to find libncurses.so.5. Rebuilding it linked it against the new > version. > > Thanks for a great distro, > Robby There are bound to be problems like that and especially with community packages. Please make a bug report on the community section of the bugtracker. Greg
