So you use the thing you have to update every

Do you think it would be a difficult task to put that removal in the pre installation script? The reason is ONLY for keeping the user at the center of the system

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Muflone
Do you think it would be a difficult task to put t...

You can keep user in control by asking what the user wants when they execute "pacman -Syu". And by providing default resolution that will be used on --noconfirm for automated upgrades.

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Ludovic 'Archivist' Lagouardette
Those lib names clashes are what made me lose mone...

May I ask what your business is? :)

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Muflone

Ender
You can keep user in control by asking what the us...

Oh no, having to read a webpage twice per year is terrible

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Ender
May I ask what your business is? :)

It was some SaaS doing accounting

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Muflone
Oh no, having to read a webpage twice per year is ...

I repeat: you shouldn't have to.

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Muflone

Ender
I repeat: you shouldn't have to.

You shouldn't fear to be able to manage your system either

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Ludovic 'Archivist' Lagouardette
It was some SaaS doing accounting

Was it a FOSS solution by any chance?

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Ender
Was it a FOSS solution by any chance?

No, it was not

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Muflone
You shouldn't fear to be able to manage your syste...

I don't fear. But I also use systems that are better designed :)

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Muflone

Ender
I don't fear. But I also use systems that are bett...

oh ok, I wasn't aware you were using Windows

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Muflone
You shouldn't fear to be able to manage your syste...

If you can't completely automate the upgrade process and provide sane defaults then your system is not relevant for real-world production servers.

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Muflone
You shouldn't fear to be able to manage your syste...

If I wanted to have to manage the 170 packages my software uses one by one and update them as painfully as possibly envisionable while checking the documentation for any fatal api changes that could put my application down and ruining the day of several companies, I would use gentoo

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Ludovic 'Archivist' Lagouardette
If I wanted to have to manage the 170 packages my ...

The only way for avoid this is not to update them API breakage is made from the software author, not from the distribution. So if you need a system whose packages are not updated to the latest version, you should not use Arch in the first place

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Muflone
The only way for avoid this is not to update them ...

Guess what? most distributions stay at the same major version of a software until the next distro release, but not rolling releases

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Muflone
The only way for avoid this is not to update them ...

It is the distribution's job to make sure all packages from official repos work correctly with each other.

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