On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I notice that a new app or an update of an existing one > has included a new major version of a library, I will in time > probably update or recompile everything to use the new library > as well. It would typically be a matter of some days. > > Just do not expect me to do that *immediately*. I do expect > that any apps that I didn't update continue to work until I > update them. This means that the previous library version must > not be removed. I don't keep a system as a toy and for the > pleasure of keeping it up to date. I need it to do my work, > and having to do a complete system update at an unexpected > time is not helping at all. Even less if that complete system > update results in the machine locking up and /me having to spend > some hours manually repairing file systems and installed packages. > As happened today. It is *required* to do only complete system updates when using Arch. Partial updates are not supported, *by design*.
