Hi Bob, > I have a sufficiently non-standard install. Specifically, I prefer to > use ctwm instead of any of the modern "desktops"
Arch Linux's install media leaves one at a VT with a shell. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide runs through the next steps, Internet access, partitioning, installing the core packages, and finishes with references to other wiki pages about common packages. So you get to choose if X might be useful, what window manager, etc. There are packages that just depend on lots of others so Gnomers can get their fix easily. > I need to see what has changed since my last OS update, which usually > means figuring out the new way to do XYZ -- and that's what typically > causes this to balloon to days With a rolling release, this tends to be a steady trickle of incremental package upgrades, most don't bother me, and when one does other users are in the same boat *now* so the solution is normally easy to find, e.g. top thread on the forum, rather than digging about for something from months ago when "testing" users first encountered it. > is it trivially easy to undo a package's upgrade? As a rolling release, a package can assume your other packages are up to date so there's not the "pinning" of one package at an old version whilst the rest move on. I think you can do it, but it's explicitly not supported. The repo has the current packages. There's an https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archive that has the previous ones, and I used that once for the Nvidia problem that stopped graphics working. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
