• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Running pacman every two weeks seems like a bad idea if you have a lot of packages… The dependencies can get dicey if you have to update too many at once.

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      1 day ago

      Well I meant two weeks is the longest period i can leave the system without updating and have no problems. And i have yet to break it with 300 pkgs updating at once.

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        1 day ago

        I had about 600 yesterday after turning on an old laptop that hasn’t been on in months… I just broke it down into two chunks, making sure to install the libraries and shit first to try to reduce possible dependency issues. Worked fine.

        Really, the worst time for me was when I had ~500 but did not realize that I did not have enough free space… I think I ended up just Time Shifting back after that one stopped me from booting.