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I have been using it for 10+ years and it hasn't corrupted things for me. It can't corrupt. It could get a bit tricky if you update very rarely, like once a ye
by Jnr 4y ago
I have been using it for 10+ years and it hasn't corrupted things for me. It can't corrupt.
It could get a bit tricky if you update very rarely, like once a year, but not sure what else there is to do to break things. Please elaborate a bit more.
- randbox 4y agoPacman will happily break pacman and sudo without warning if the user requests updating openssl without upgrading the entire system. When updating a package it does not pull in all of the other packages which will break if not updated simultaneously.
- Jnr 4y agoIndeed, pacman does not know which library versions are necessary for any particular app version. And almost all of the applications are dynamically linked. Archlinux repo holds only a single latest version. There are some community maintained repos that contain older versions (and those can be easily fetched through downgrade utility). When updating Archlinux, upgrade everything and then reboot. This way it should not break.