• Kanda@reddthat.com
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    22 hours ago

    The question was how they make the arch go boom by running pacman -Syyu and I gave the most probable reason. Thanks for hitting me with RTFM

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      22 hours ago

      Sorry that wasn’t meant like that, I was just pointing out that that was at least communicated in Archnews which not everything is, for example the firewalld package split you have to catch in the package update warnings which is easy to miss.

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah there’s a lot of things you can do, but I bet most people just hit yes and go about their day, which is how they break their system. I’ve done it at least once (come back from vacation and pacman hits you with 300+ new packages), but also have broken arch by trying to install stuff by following old deprecated guides. It’s not hard to break, but it’s also very achievable to have a problem free time.