Ray Rashif wrote: > 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. And I expect bandwidth will become more costly. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
