Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: >> Interesting. Judging from a quick glance at the NixOS homepage, nix >> deals with shared dependencies by having very precise rules about >> which package requires which versions of sha

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Isaac Dupree > wrote: >> NixOS does better >> (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born >> in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple >> versions of

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > NixOS does better > (at least at the theoretical stuff, though it has fewer users..it was born > in academia..Basically it is archtected so that you can have multiple > versions of any package installed and they inherently won't conflict with

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: >> And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have >> a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and with no required >> manual intervention during updates or i

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > Hi archers, > > It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with > pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring > packages? Is it as dangerous? > > And a more general question: is it even theoretically

Re: [arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/17/10 14:42, Denis Kobozev wrote: Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous? the most likely danger with small version skews is if a library is upgraded,

[arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

2010-03-17 Thread Denis Kobozev
Hi archers, It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring packages? Is it as dangerous? And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and