On 17 March 2010 15:58, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:32:15 Ray Rashif wrote: >> Oo 10 years..yeah that could work. I'm not a frequent update either, >> but anyway a little guesstheomatical fun: > <snip> >> ## Conclusion ## >> Assuming the average schooling and working Archer reads 10 articles a >> day, it would take approx. 7 days or a week (inclusive of the >> less-than-half-hour pacman -Syyu) to overcome this updating feat. > > Having worked with gentoo and therefore knowing the update-processes in such a > setup, I can tell you that your calculation is senseless. Its not wrong in the > mathematical sense, although you can't really add up update-sizes because > after some months you will realize that not every in-between version of an app > to go from the initially installed one to the final one will have to be > downloaded and installed. > But its wrong because the time and trouble for updates aren't the download > times but the times when you configure and reconfigure services. And when you > try to manage to get your current distribution-tool to work with the > repository present in ten years. And the time to learn about which apps and > libs have been deprecated and discontinued and which new apps and libs replace > these... Definitely, and those haven't even been factored in. And also, packages will definitely grow to be larger than they are now. Actually, I only wanted to say "Oh, 10 years? Good luck!" =p -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
