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[–] 11 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

I unironically pacman -Syu'd today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos

Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it's previous' version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before ever update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.

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