thanks for the wiki link, it's good to know that some has tried to implement the ideas, which I didn't know existed at all. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Ali H. Caliskan > <ali.h.caliskan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > Hi, it has been discussed many times in the past. Bottom line is, if > you want to do that go ahead, the developers wont help you. Meaning > this will not be an official project. > See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Stable for info > about the last time this was attempted. > & good luck > > -- > Greg >
