Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.