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Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 week ago by makeitwonderful@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it's my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won't announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that's not enough.

I've been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I've decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The same thing happened to me. The package was split into separate packages. Install the package vlc-plugins-all.

sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all

Problem solved

[–] sudo@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't want to fault people for avoiding Arch's instability in general but this is a very minor issue.

VLC is not a system critical package. I absolutely understand the mods choice to not put it in the RSS. At most they could put a notice in the pacman logs when it updates.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I like Arch because of the AUR and Pacman. Debian and Ubuntu had me adding a bunch of PPA's which I found way more annoying. Debian probably would be my second choice though. As for the VLC thing, it took me less than 5 minutes from noticing there was a problem, to finding the solution online. Then I was watching The Whitest Kids U' Know in VLC.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm curious as to why the package manager doesn't fix this automatically?

[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They will probably get to there. It's just not that important for the developers rn. They are working on a pacman rust rewrite and hopefully we can see more contributions to the project. I already considered contributing but C deterred me.

You can see the milestones here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/alpm/alpm/-/milestones

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. My VLC broke similarly, but I use it rarely enough that I hadn't looked into it yet.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Happy to help!