• bloogoose@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    I’m not one of those Arch evangelicals, but this isn’t true at all now.

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      11 hours ago

      100%. I’ve got servers running arch for the past 5 years or so and they’re the most stable systems I’ve got. I got so tired of the painful upgrade paths on “stable” distros so decided to switch a server to a rolling release.

      After I found arch got security patches into the repos faster than the stable distros could backport, I decided to switch them all over.

      I’m even a mad man and have them self update with a script that checks informant (or something, can’t actually remember) for installed packages against news. If no installed packages are found in news, it continues with the scheduled update.

      It’s glorious.

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        10 hours ago

        I was too lazy for scripting the update to check the news and just get a mail when the update has issues… or should get one.

        In reality I check if the email process still works once every blue moon because I didn’t get one from a failed update in years.

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        10 hours ago

        If you want to have at least some thrill, use testing repos. I had to fix GitLab two (2) times due to the main package not being linked against testing libraries (it took 10 seconds to ln -s the new to the old version), and had one breakage due to dovecot revamping their whole config system, but publishing no example/useful docs.

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      12 hours ago

      But it says this screenshot post happened 4h ago.

      Did the internet lie to me?