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What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tester1121@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I don't like that it takes forever to run dnf. I don't want to use Manjaro (apparently it breaks quickly?), and the distro needs to support KDE. I know about Flatpak, but I don't want to download 1GB of data for each app. Are there any good options?

(Yes, I can probably deal with Fedora, but dnf is slower than apt, and I don't want to deal with external repositories for non-free software.)

EDIT: I do not want to tweak or edit configuration files, I just need something that has up to date packages and "just works".

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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

With a rolling release you don't need to install every update every single day. You just need to remember to occasionally update to the latest. Updating every day on a rolling release is actually kinda dangerous. I wouldn't recommend that in practice. Why not configure an auto-install script? You could probably make a systemd unit file that does a pacman -Syu overnight, if it can.

Here -- someone did it already - its in aur -

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/autoupdate

[–] tester1121@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't this considered bad in Arch? Or was I misled?

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

You should ideally be updating manually so you can handle any issues as they arise and you don't wake up to a silently broken system. Manual intervention is occasionally required. Usually it's associated with a breaking change that's announced on the mailing list, but sometimes it'll just happen.

[–] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Automating updates is generally frowned upon, that's when things can break. But waiting to run updates until you feel like it (instead of daily) is totally fine. I've been using Arch and its forks for years, and have always updated once a week unless something was wrong.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

It is.

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