196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone qaz @lemmy.world 3w ago

Rolling release rule

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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
- 2000+ package updates is pretty normal. I use arch, btw.
- that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point
  
  *decimal separator
  
  For you, sure! For me, it's a decimal point
- Italy perhaps
i spent way too much time trying to figure out how you can have .144 of an update
- that's the hotpatch which fixes the floating point number issue
- Naturally when you only update .144 of the source code
  
  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
- I believe that's what they call fractional updates.
openSUSE Tumbleweed moment
- Does this happen regularly with Tumbleweed, or just when you use your system rarely, like every other Friday 12th?
  
  There are reasonably frequent rebuilds of basically all packages as new versions of the compiler, gcc, come in
  
  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.
- ikr
Arch-packaging-haskell moment
BABE! Its 4PM time for your glibc update...
How do you have .144 of an update?
- Some countries use point as a thousand separator (and comma as decimal separator)
  
  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.
- It hasn't finished uploading yet

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