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Each time the Arch update breaks, I'll eat a snack. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 30 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Arch has a news feed where it describes things that require manual intervention when upgrading: https://archlinux.org/ (You are informed at arch install that you have to read it before upgrading.)

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    What an awesome and amazing and definitely not annoying system. Automating that to show you only what you need based on the packages you have installed when you do the update would be so ridiculous. I’m glad it’s just a blog.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Welcome to Gentoo.

    Notes with recommended user actions are provided per package after every update. Mostly to let you know about optional packages and tell you how to enable optional auto start for some things.

    For things that need even more attention, there is a system that tracks read/unread news that also only show up when your system needs it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    There are messages with generic recommendations and post upgrade/post install scripts. They are rarely used because it goes against arch's principles to run some (maybe fragile) script on your system. Reading news once a week/month before upgrade isn't that inconvenient.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    It's actually helpful that it's not filtered, because otherwise, I would only see a new post maybe once every 2 years, and would therefore not know if it still works, and feel lonely.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I get the building the system from scratch is good for learning the system and I've done it myself but this just feels like bad development, why not make it a simple script that you can choose to run or you know just make it part of the update itself like literally everyone else in the world.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    99% of the time it is just automatic and part of the update. Usually it's only an issue if you are updating from a specific older version of something or have made a particular customization that breaks with the update.

    Like others, I've got at least one system running Arch for 10+ years and I've only had to manually do something a handful of times. Usually it's just that I have to update the keyring first before the rest of the update.

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