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On 17 March 2010 15:58, Arnold Krille  wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:32:15 Ray Rashif wrote:

>> Oo 10 years..yeah that could work. I'm not a frequent update either,

>> but anyway a little guesstheomatical fun:

>

>> ## Conclusion ##

>> Assuming the average schooling and working Archer reads 10 articles a

>> day, it would take approx. 7 days or a week (inclusive of the

>> less-than-half-hour pacman -Syyu) to overcome this updating feat.

>

> Having worked with gentoo and therefore knowing the update-processes in such a

> setup, I can tell you that your calculation is senseless. Its not wrong in the

> mathematical sense, although you can't really add up update-sizes because

> after some months you will realize that not every in-between version of an app

> to go from the initially installed one to the final one will have to be

> downloaded and installed.

> But its wrong because the time and trouble for updates aren't the download

> times but the times when you configure and reconfigure services. And when you

> try to manage to get your current distribution-tool to work with the

> repository present in ten years. And the time to learn about which apps and

> libs have been deprecated and discontinued and which new apps and libs replace

> these...

Definitely, and those haven't even been factored in. And also,

packages will definitely grow to be larger than they are now.
Actually, I only wanted to say "Oh, 10 years? Good luck!"
=p
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