i spent way too much time trying to figure out how you can have .144 of an update
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Naturally when you only update .144 of the source code
I believe that's what they call fractional updates.
that's the hotpatch which fixes the floating point number issue
I'm now wondering if OP is in a locale that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point or if their update client is proposing 2 updates and roughly 10% of a third
The joke works for both
2000+ package updates is pretty normal. I use arch, btw.
that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point
*decimal separator
For you, sure! For me, it's a decimal point
No, for me it's a decimal comma. Decimal separator is the neutral word
How do you have .144 of an update?
Some countries use point as a thousand separator (and comma as decimal separator)
And those countries are wrong. Using a comma as a decimal point makes no logical sense, especially in computing. And it's ugly from an aesthetics standpoint.
It's only ugly because you aren't used to it.
Also, both systems make equally as much - or little - sense. Math notations is just using whichever symbol is commonly available and easy to write without asking whether it makes logical sense.
Are you complaining that the factorial operator makes no logical sense either? Or the "#" symbol for the cardinality of a set?
openSUSE Tumbleweed moment
Does this happen regularly with Tumbleweed, or just when you use your system rarely, like every other Friday 12th?
There are reasonably frequent rebuilds of basically all packages as new versions of the compiler, gcc, come in
I find it very common with opensuse. At first I was ecstatic to update, but now I just can't care - it takes too long, so I do it every few months.
the hell kind of PC do you have?
I have an Intel Celeron laptop and an i7-4770k i7 desktop computer. Zypper is just too slow when you have many packages installed, but I require them for my work.
Regardless, a Celeron processor should be more than enough for downloading and updating packages. I'd rather not blame the hardware for a task as trivial as that.