• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Arch is just the most popular one where that would happen. Most distros don’t have that issue; it’s an artifact of the simplistic packaging that Arch uses.

        I don’t happen to know how Gentoo handles it, though

        • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
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          6 hours ago

          Yeah, I don’t either, and I don’t attach USB drives very often. I’m now tempted to try it, but I’d have to wait for the next kernel update, and I will 1000% forget to do it by then

        • esc@piefed.social
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          6 hours ago

          Arch package manager isn’t really simplistic? Maintainers can mitigate this easily, just goes counter arch philosophy.

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            6 hours ago

            They’ve been bolting on more complex use cases, but keeping packaging simplistic was their stated goal 20 years ago

            It’s not a bad thing, but missing modules for the running kernel on updates is one edge case new users might not expect

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              6 hours ago

              Reboot is a recommended choice on any linux system after kernel upgrade (systemd as well).

              It’s not a simple package manager and it can do a lot, not on the level of zypper but it’s pretty complete. There are some intentional limitations, true.