Hi, I believe that having system still-up-to-date is one of the basic ideas of Arch. If you want to have snapshot just waint until your system is "stable enough" and then don't do pacman -Syu for some time :-) On Tuesday 17 March 2009 23:19:07 Ali H. Caliskan wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that > goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum, > I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I > personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big > distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days > or weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling > release into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained > packages, comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a > great way of using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next > snapshot release. I'm not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of > a rolling state. Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of > closing bugs. Not to mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned > packages as well. > > > Regards, > > Ali -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan@xxxxxxxxx Tel. +420 732 326 870
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