alt Hacker News> Everything already works fine.
No, Archlinux was repeatedly behind with package updates. This even went as far as lagging behind Ubuntu in at least one instance, causing inconvenience and frustration for users which then either had to use other more up-to-date sources for dependencies or package the newer version of dependencies under a different installroot themselves.
This problem is caused by a staff shortage or the average necessary maintanance effort for repo packages. At least one of those 2 causes has to be solved.
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There's a staff shortage and instead of catching up on packaging tasks the project is building the 19th, what 20th package management system that Linux has now, instead of using battle tested systems like .deb and .rpm?
That is why projects like Arch ... Nixos ... etc ... all eventually become "niche".
What packages are you talking about?
It does it's job. I've been using it on the desktop for decades now with never needing to care about anything like that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it...