On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 20:54 +0000, Alex Naysmith wrote: > Arch [...] can cause head-aches when Pacman -Syu makes significant > changes
If so, then the problem exists between keyboard and chair. Before you run pacman -Syu (an update), you should take a look at the Arch homepage, no link on the homepage, directly take a look at the start site, https://www.archlinux.org/ . It's a rolling release, so transitions sometimes happen, e.g. for the FSH and this indeed could be tricky, but the steps are explained on the homepage and usually a transition does cause much noise, so even if you usually ignore news for your distro and make updates without knowing what you're doing, at least when there's much noise about a topic, it's time to take a look at the update notes, before doing an update. This btw. is the same for Debian and other distros, resp. when it isn't needed, than this comes with other drawbacks. Debian stable won't make a transition, but the side effect is, that a Debian stable user can't contribute to upstream and upstream can't help when stable does use version 0.5, while upstream already is at upstream-stable release version 8.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1384897495.1207.107.camel@archlinux
