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That line about update arch base means it is shipping only a year old packages and not 1.5 year old ones.
by TiredOfLife 4mo ago
That line about update arch base means it is shipping only a year old packages and not 1.5 year old ones.
- bravetraveler 4mo agoSo, depending where you look, more current than $FAVORITE_LTS... with a distribution found on mass-market gaming devices intended for precisely three wrappers. Why do you, presumably a normal user, even care about the packages? Eesh. As long as Valve provides more snapshot updates in the next six months, I don't see the problem. The ~~TiVo~~ toy is maintaining currency. I'll concede this might be annoying for the subset that chooses to use a Steam Machine as a server or development workspace, once the product releases. My condolences to this imaginary and small group. They'll be shocked to find immutability, too.
- bandrami 4mo agoWhen you maintain systems long enough you realize that's a feature rather than a bug
- TiredOfLife 4mo agoWhen it's not based on a rolling disto.
- bandrami 4mo agoEverything's ultimately based on a rolling distro; Debian is frozen from Sid and Fedora (and ultimately RHEL) are frozen from Rawhide.
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- bravetraveler 4mo agoAgreed. Valve is the maintainer, it's no longer 'rolling' (or Arch) by virtue of creating SteamOS and delivering momentary snapshots. Arch is upstream and largely irrelevant to us, the consumers of SteamOS. Ask anyone outside of Valve or strange hobbies what packages actually 'make' SteamOS; they couldn't tell you. It's simply not their concern. In fewer words: if you need/want to know the lifecycle, you'd know. The "by the way, they're a year old" message that started this thread is in bad faith. The Fedora release that equates to any EL derivative is comparatively ancient. It's fine.