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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a rolling release distro. It continuously changes. So sometimes there are changes that can't be resolved just by updating packages.
During the past year, there were half a dozen changes that required running an additional terminal command before an update.
https://archlinux.org/news/ mentions when that is the case, and there's also several ways to get a warning before you update.

On the other hand, you never have to do an upgrade from one release version to the next (which has never once worked for me on Ubuntu LTS).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Huh. I've been running Arch for over 7 years and I don't think I've ever run an additional command before updating. Simply just updating has worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It might have worked for you, but you might have accumulated some outdated cruft and missed replacements of old packages that way.