I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it’s my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won’t announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that’s not enough.

I’ve been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I’ve decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    27·
    9 hours ago

    The same thing happened to me. The package was split into separate packages. Install the package vlc-plugins-all.

    sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all

    Problem solved

    • sudo@programming.dev
      2·
      50 minutes ago

      I don’t want to fault people for avoiding Arch’s instability in general but this is a very minor issue.

      VLC is not a system critical package. I absolutely understand the mods choice to not put it in the RSS. At most they could put a notice in the pacman logs when it updates.