Cut down Linux + customisable X windows

[Paul Gear]

On 09/02/12 12:55, Ian Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>> ... and have patience for your package manager breaking every time you
>> update.
>> ...
> No fun. I do not recommend the testing repo and one just has to go to archlinux.org
> before the upgrade to look for those very rare show stoppers (ive had one in 2 years) or just review the upgrades 
> output for any warnings. Fun.

I've experienced major breakage every time (all three of them ;-) i've
touched an Arch Linux system and tried to update a package.  And that
was with their "stable" repo.  Note that this was just updating to apply
security updates, not anything analogous to a Debian or Ubuntu
distribution upgrade.

> True you can not upgrade blindly. That applies to all distros! 

I've upgraded almost blindly on Debian & Ubuntu many times and not had
even the troubles i had on simple application of security updates on Arch.

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