5 mo. ago • 100%

Rolling release rule

33 comments

I'm now wondering if OP is in a locale that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point or if their update client is proposing 2 updates and roughly 10% of a third

The joke works for both

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- 2000+ package updates is pretty normal. I use arch, btw.
  
  50
- that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point
  
  *decimal separator
  
  10
  
  For you, sure! For me, it's a decimal point
  
  7
- Italy perhaps
  
  1
i spent way too much time trying to figure out how you can have .144 of an update

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- that's the hotpatch which fixes the floating point number issue
  
  43
- Naturally when you only update .144 of the source code
  
  20
  
  I like that that implies that the entire source code for the operating system and all its packages are being ship of Theseus'd twice in addition to that
  
  19
- I believe that's what they call fractional updates.
  
  6
openSUSE Tumbleweed moment

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- Does this happen regularly with Tumbleweed, or just when you use your system rarely, like every other Friday 12th?
  
  8
  
  There are reasonably frequent rebuilds of basically all packages as new versions of the compiler, gcc, come in
  
  15
  
  I find it very common with opensuse. At first I was ecstatic to update, but now I just can't care - it takes too long, so I do it every few months.
  
  6
- ikr
  
  1
Arch-packaging-haskell moment

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BABE! Its 4PM time for your glibc update...

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How do you have .144 of an update?

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- Some countries use point as a thousand separator (and comma as decimal separator)
  
  24
  
  And those countries are wrong. Using a comma as a decimal point makes no logical sense, especially in computing. And it's ugly from an aesthetics standpoint.
  
  8
- It hasn't finished uploading yet
  
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