Lørdag 29 juli 2006 00:55, skrev Sergej Pupykin: > >> I have had the same problem, and I have not yet solved it. I cannot > >> upgrade my whole system because I'm on slow dialup. > > DR> Just my $0.02, but if you're running on dialup I wouldn't recommend > Arch DR> as a good choice of distro. > > How other distros solve this problems?
Most other distros solve this by releasing a new version every half year or so, or more seldom, and then they don't upgrade programs to new versions inbetween. Some do it almost the same way as Arch and others have a more complex version dependency system. Arch upgrades each program every time a new release comes for the program. For libraries, that most often means that the programs that depend on it need to be recompiled against the new version. That's why it's smart to do a full system upgrade each time you install something new. Now, I do think this is a bit primitive, and the idea you had that lets you install a program, or update a program, and all the programs that is needed for the system not to break, should be possible, and not too hard to implement. It might already be possible. I seldom read the pacman man page. It could be something as simple as, in case of an upgrade, to also update all the programs that depends on the updated program, and the programs that the updated program depends on. Of course this has to be checked with all the programs being updated in the process. -filoktetes _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
