Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by bscphil on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:01PM
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I don't think that's true at all. If you use Ubuntu, broken packages are ultimately your responsibility unless you're paying for support from Canonical. In both Ubuntu and Arch Linux, changes will be handled carefully by the maintainers to try to avoid breakage where at all possible. The difference is basically that on Arch you're supposed to be able to handle basic sysadmin tasks yourself, which means that Arch Linux will ship breaking changes (with a mailing list warning) that require you to run a command or two yourself. Even with that qualifier, this is uncommon.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by celticmusic on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:42PM
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> on Arch you're supposed to be able to handle basic sysadmin tasks yourself
And the reason for this is because you realize the latest update killed virtualbox and you require it for your work so you need to be able to downgrade and pin the vbox application to a specific version.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu catches the problem and refuses to update the package until it's fixed. Therefore I never even realize there was a breaking update to vbox somewhere.
The difference being that Arch tells me when to tinker because it blew up again, Ubuntu allows me to choose when to tinker because it doesn't.