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[Andrew Wiley]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Jeff Nowakowski <jeff at 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.
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