Do you update your Arch often (daily) or not?
Which would be better?
I figure, if I update every day, I’ll likely not expect any issues, so I’d be less careful. And if something goes wrong (cause I didn’t read the news or the PKGBUILDs), I probably won’t have time to fix it right now.
Whereas if I update monthly, it’s something I’m taking my time to do, read the news beforehand, pay more attention and will have scheduled some time for it.
What’s your take?
any reason you only update the repos and not the packages?
I like to have a known point-in-time copy of the repo database locally just in case.
I don’t feel a need to update my entire system every week. Every two or three months is fine for my use case. More often if I need to (like an 0-day or a new application really demands it) but other than that, I just don’t need to. I use my systems, they’re not just there running for me to do maintenance on.