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The main problem these days is that people don't give a fuck about packaging their software for the constellations of distributions that exist. OpenSUSE topic-repositories usually offer the latest packaged version of most things for the Stable version too (say the Games repository), where available. But in many cases, latest versions are just not there for anyone.

We are in a model now where OS repositories have been replaced by npm, pip, rubygems in the best case. By pulling from Github's master branch in the worst (wink at Golang). In a sense, your system is already a rolling distro, except plugged to a third-party-managed repository which you trust to install packages produced by total strangers.




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