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0 pointsturminal3y ago0 comments

I think the idea is "ensuring software is always up to date", so no pinning by default.

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Until they drop support for your hardware... Then what happens?

You have to chuck it in the bin and buy a new one, obviously. That's the state of the startphone world today, if you want to keep up on security updates

myko3y ago

This is lamentable and I'd love to see longer periods of support for older devices, but I'm not sure what the ideal state is - beyond being able to install your own OS on your device, which will still require some level of support from someone.

What's reasonable - 5 years of support? 10?

dhodell3y ago

These things work in tandem: the base system is pinned, but can also be easily updated with an OTA. Packages existing outside that set are resolved on-demand, and are thus updated when components in a package are run after a new version is published to the package repository.

katbyte3y ago

until randomly without warning the latest version is broken, removes something, deprecates something, or is incompatible with something else. "always up to date" is something that sounds great but in practice has many many pitfalls.

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