On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jan de Groot<jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: >> The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. >> Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. >> And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whole testing repo. >> >> As long as you are skilled enough to determine which packages you can >> safely pick from testing, there is no problem. > > That's why you should follow arch-dev-public. At this moment we have a > massive readline rebuild sitting in testing. So when you pacman -S one > package from testing that pulls in readline, you know you're in trouble > if you don't update everything. > This issue will hit people also when the new readline moves to core btw. > People will install a single package on their outdated system, pacman > pulls in new readline, deletes old libraries and everything is dead, > system unbootable, chroot not even possible as the shell binary is > killed by missing readline. init=/bin/dash The lightweight shell is good for something, rather than putting all your marbles in the bash basket. -Dan
