> You don't need to download a new copy every month or so. > > The ISO just provides a bootable squashfs image with a pacman binary, > and in fact our official installation guide takes some pain to inform > you that you can install Arch to bare metal using the bootstrap > image, > or using the pacman packages provided by Fedora and Gentoo! > > The devtools package has scripts to automatically install systemd- > nspawn > containers if the host is Arch Linux -- or at leas contains a working > pacman installation and the Arch Linux keyring. We use this script to > build packages. > > We also provide official docker containers as well as vagrant images, > under the "archlinux" namespaces. > > If you're updating manually *anyway*, this package does nothing -- > and > there's better ways that even let you update automatically by *not* > using AUR packages. > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User >
I'm sure there are many, many ways to install/use Arch, however that doesn't change that I want/need the up-to-date iso. Thank you for pointing these out though.
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