On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Manolo Martínez <manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/20/12 at 09:31pm, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:15:47 -0400 Manolo Martínez <manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 07/20/12 at 02:56pm, Daniel Wallace wrote: >> > > All of those changes were discussed by the devs on arch-dev-public >> > >> > I, for one, thought that running archlinux responsibly only committed me >> > to subscribing to and reading arch-announce and -general. If I need to >> > read -dev-public too I will, but it'd be good to be explicit about this. >> >> You don't have to read arch-dev-public if you just want to use Arch, but >> your original question was about the reasoning behind the move and that >> information is available in the mailing list archives. > > No, apparently you do need to know why and how these things are done even if you just > want to use Arch and don't plan to develop for it. That's a lesson I learnt around here anyway. > > Manolo Just to chime in here, I hadn't updated my system in about 6 months and was able to get past the /lib bump without reading the ML threads just fine. The news article linking to the wiki page was plenty.
