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Update often or not? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by superkret@feddit.de to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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Do you update your Arch often (daily) or not?
Which would be better?

I figure, if I update every day, I'll likely not expect any issues, so I'd be less careful. And if something goes wrong (cause I didn't read the news or the PKGBUILDs), I probably won't have time to fix it right now.
Whereas if I update monthly, it's something I'm taking my time to do, read the news beforehand, pay more attention and will have scheduled some time for it.

What's your take?

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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

any reason you only update the repos and not the packages?

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I like to have a known point-in-time copy of the repo database locally just in case.

I don't feel a need to update my entire system every week. Every two or three months is fine for my use case. More often if I need to (like an 0-day or a new application really demands it) but other than that, I just don't need to. I use my systems, they're not just there running for me to do maintenance on.