Re: Why Debian
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.
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