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Arch Linux isn't up to date anymore
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I usually don't mind when most packages get behind, but the one I always notice is GNOME. It's been taking longer than I would generally expect for Arch to ship a new major update for GNOME. Fedora seems to have more up-to-date packages in most areas and ships them vanilla like Arch, as well as coming with a host of other sane defaults, so I've been thinking of making the switch...soon.
IIRC it's because they wait for the X.1 release of GNOME before actually updating
Oh, I didn't know that! All I've ever seen when this question gets asked in the BBS is "it'll be done when it's done :)" which is fair enough. If they're waiting for the
.1release as an indicator of stability, then that explains why it feels like a while.