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I don't buy it. I just updated an Arch Linux machine that had been powered off for a while, ~3GB of packages (~200 packages IIRC) were updated (along with new/c
by craftyguy 8y ago
I don't buy it. I just updated an Arch Linux machine that had been powered off for a while, ~3GB of packages (~200 packages IIRC) were updated (along with new/changed dependencies for some of them) in about 10 minutes, not accounting for download time which is totally dependent upon inet connection speed. During that 10 minutes, my system was 100% usable, and I was able to save all of my work and reboot it at my earliest convenience.
- Marsymars 8y agoAnecdotally, I recently updated my Arch VM after about a week of uptime, and it somehow OOM'd mid-kernel update. Guidance online suggested it was technically recoverable, but seemed easier to just blow the unbootable VM away and recreate.