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by bionade24 154 days ago
> Everything already works fine.

No, Archlinux was repeatedly behind with package updates. This even went as far as lagging behind Ubuntu in at least one instance, causing inconvenience and frustration for users which then either had to use other more up-to-date sources for dependencies or package the newer version of dependencies under a different installroot themselves.

This problem is caused by a staff shortage or the average necessary maintanance effort for repo packages. At least one of those 2 causes has to be solved.
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guerrilla 154 days ago
What packages are you talking about?

It does it's job. I've been using it on the desktop for decades now with never needing to care about anything like that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

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1una 154 days ago
> What packages are you talking about?

Maybe Python: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1azkxnn/whats_ho...

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jelly1 151 days ago
I intentionally hold back major Python versions till I can dedicate a lot of time to get everything rebuild and compatible. A lot of big Python programs (ML, scientific) usually need work to get compatible requiring ~ 1-2 weeks of time to get this all done :)
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HendrikHensen 154 days ago
The fact that you personally haven't encountered an issue, doesn't mean that no issue existed.
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guerrilla 154 days ago
Okay, I'm saying don't break it.
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trueismywork 154 days ago
Use Rocky
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guerrilla 154 days ago
No thanks. It works. Don't break it. Thanks.
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nineteen999 154 days ago
There's a staff shortage and instead of catching up on packaging tasks the project is building the 19th, what 20th package management system that Linux has now, instead of using battle tested systems like .deb and .rpm?

That is why projects like Arch ... Nixos ... etc ... all eventually become "niche".

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homebrewer 154 days ago
Nah, you can keep both. Arch and Alpine are the only two distributions where I bother to build proper packages for everything because their package managers make it so easy to do the right thing.

It might be the 20th package manager in existence, which would be a problem, if Debian maintainers did not release a 20th way to build .debs just a year or two ago, mostly (but not really) deprecating the previous 19 ways. No thanks.

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mqus 154 days ago
Its not "building a new package management system", "alpm" is literally the foundation of the pacman ecosystem. They are improving this so they _can_ catch up on packaging tasks.

I'm the same as the sibling commenter, I don't want to have another deb or rpm distro. The AUR wouldn't exist without pacman&makepkg.

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