DISCLAIMER: Arch Linux is not a beginner friendly distribution, and this is not a recommendation or good practice.

I know how to use pacman -S. I have yet to experience a Discover related issue after months of use.

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    47·
    2 days ago

    Arch Wiki has still this warning

    Warning

    As explained in a GitHub comment by a Package Maintainer, “Handling system packages via packagekit is just fundamentally incompatible with our high-maintenance rolling release distro, where any update might leave the system in an unbootable or otherwise unusable state if the user does not take care reading pacman’s logs or merging pacnew files before rebooting.”

    • humanamerican@lemmy.zip
      15·
      2 days ago

      So its less about lack of packagekit support in pacman and more about lack of manual intervention features in GUI software managers?

      • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        165·
        2 days ago

        it is more about arch’s philosy being your system may not boot next update, happens pretty much no where else, except windows, manjaro and sometimes ubuntu

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          it is more about arch’s philosy being your system may not boot next update

          Yeah … no thanks. I’ll be okay with slightly outdated versions of various packages, as long as they still work.

          • tempest@lemmy.ca
            5·
            2 days ago

            I mean I’ve been running an arch derivative for nearly ten years and the last time I got got was an Nvidia driver bug in 2020.

            As much as arch talks about it it doesn’t happen that often.

          • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
            3·
            2 days ago

            I’m not sure it’s ever happened to me. I imagine it must have, because of Arch’s reputation, but I can’t recall it ever actually happening to me personally.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Wait, I am supposed to care about .pacnew files?

      Anyway, so far all I found there is new optional dependencies.
      I rather wonder what happens when manual intervention is needed, like when JDK started being in conflict with JRE.