On 03/17/10 14:42, Denis Kobozev wrote:
Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous?
the most likely danger with small version skews is if a library is upgraded, and a program depends on that library, and the library's new version is not binary-compatible with the library's old version.
And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and with no required manual intervention during updates or is it just a pipe dream?
Gentoo does some, (use revdep-rebuild. hope it works.).* NixOS does better (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple versions of any package installed and they inherently won't conflict with each other.).
*side-note: gentoo doesn't have bleeding-edge packages as often as it used to.
but none are perfect. Large version skews tend to make everything somewhat incompatible at runtime.
-Isaac
