On 8 February 2010 10:02, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only alternative to this is making sure that > updated versions of all apps are made available > as soon as the new library is used by any of them, > and this is clearly impossible. > > I'm pretty sure that at the moment a system update > or even complete fresh install including texlive, > emacs and gnuplot will have the latter two not > working. The most recent versions (as of writing) > require different libraries. > > So, apparently there is no solution. Hi Fons Actually, that's exactly how it was: http://www.archlinux.org/news/482/ Everything was hunted down and rebuilt in testing, before being moved to the repos wholesale. That then results in a huge update for some people, so partial updates would definitely break your system. Hence, -Syu and making sure it completes. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
