On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Jeff Nowakowski <j...@dilacero.org> wrote:
> On 01/20/2011 12:24 AM, Gour wrote: > >> Otoh, with Ubuntu, upgrade from 8.10 to 10.10 is always a major >> undertaking (I'm familiar with it since '99 when I used SuSE and had >> experience with deps hell.) >> > > Highlighting the problem of waiting too long to upgrade. You're skipping an > entire release. I'd like to see you take a snapshot of Arch from 2008, use > the system for 2 years without updating, and then upgrade to the latest > packages. Do you think Arch is going to magically have no problems? > Ironically, I did this a few years back with an Arch box that was setup, then banished to the TV room as a gaming system, then reconnected to the internet about two years later (I didn't have wifi at the time, and I still haven't put a wifi dongle on the box). It updated with no problems and is still operating happily. Now, I was expecting problems, but on the other hand, since *all* packages are in the rolling release model and individual packages contain specific version dependencies, problems are harder to find than you'd think.
