Title is self-explanatory. A recent update a week ago broke my EndeavourOS installation and I made the switch to Manjaro. I heard that Manjaro curates packages in the hope of avoiding system breakage and required manual intervention. Please be nice to me as I have used Manjaro since 2015.
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It sounds self contraditory.
You used Arch (EOS is Arch with a few convenience adjustments) - but it ābrokeā ā¦
Then you chose Manjaro because of that ābreakageā.
The āvettingā is not done by āthe teamā but rather by the users who choose to use the testing and/or the unstable branch of Manjaro.
anecdotal only:
I have never managed to ābreakā Arch beyond repair ā¦
Manjaro included
@dazzletune
What is your objective here?
It does not seem to be āclarificationā.
The stable branch simply relaxes the updates coming from Arch repos, so yes it uses Arch as testing ground by fast synchronizing its packaging to unstable then testing branches.
But that stable branch will become a source of problems if you use many AUR packages which are not supported and are only well synchronized with Arch packages.
Plus the stable branch cannot be used to report any kind of bug or crash due to absence of suitable debug symbols for its packages, only unstable branch can use the ones from Arch repos.
Another problem is Manjaro modified packages and tools which sometimes cause minor problems in case of late updating (e.g Breath themes) or slow fixes (e.g Pamac).
And the last problem is Manjaro repos which take longer to get synchronized, sometimes when a new Plasma version is released I get only some packages to update, so I always wait for some hours to get the full list of packages before starting any major upgrade.
@dazzletune Please donāt create duplicate topics. The threads have been merged.
Again, you can read many posts on r/ManjaroLinux about this subject.