On 07/24/2012 01:15 AM, Martin Cigorraga wrote: > The beauty behind this is we are now enjoying the new paradigm without > reinstalling the > system while with other distros your only chance to make the switch is > reinstall not only > your OS but everything else! > Cheers. Now that... is the beauty of Arch! The other distro's release/reinstall cycle is far more work than the rolling-release. But, after packaging trinity on Arch, I can tell you it is a double-edge sword. You get everything building just fine until the next pacman -Syu and then 5 packages quit building due to package updates (libpng, ffmpeg, gcc, on-and-on, ...) Literally you can kick off a build in the morning, then update and have it go to hell in the evening. It gives you a great deal of respect for the sheer amount of work the Arch developers put into this disto.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
