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.
what broken packages? if archlinux provides vanilla packages and doesn't
provide custom made configuration, doesn't mean that are broken.
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.
how come for a lot of people can last years? you made me think that you
are the problem.
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.
that will make archlinux like fedora,mandriva,ubuntu. it will kill
archlinux for ever.
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.
archlinux is a rolling release distribution. that was my first
motivation when i switch to archlinux. i like archlinux the way is it
now. personally i don't want developers to change anything. leave it
like this :)
Regards,
Ali
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Ionut
