From: Mark Stanislav (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Wed 07-Apr-2004 12:53:21 PM EDT
Neal Probert wrote:
> From my experience, running unstable has caused me numerous problems.
> In essence, it makes you an involuntary guinea pig for somebody's
> experiemental changes.
Actually, that would be 'experimental'. Now mix those, and unstable, for
a tasty treat. I am using experimental gnome-2.6 packages right now,
brokeness is slowly leaving. Oh, and I am VERY voluntary, if I wasn't,
no one would see the packages in unstable, testing, and finally, stable.
-Mark
>
> With a production web server and email server, I cannot wait till
> somebody puts out a fix for a bad release. However, make sure you do
> get the security updates.
>
> It would be nice if Perl did the same thing with CPAN, though the
> debian packages for Perl tend to lag quite a bit and not all Perl
> modules are available as debian packages.
>
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joe Stump [mailto:[e-mail suppressed]]
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 1.) Everyone out there thinking "Hey, apt-pinning sounds cool"
>>> should be
>>> warned that mixing packages can cause *serious* problems with
>>> dependencies (the whole reason people switch to Debian). In my
>>> experience it's better to simply run unstable or testing.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Well, yes. I usually use aptitude when I'm adding packages that way,
>> so I
>> can see what the dependencies are.
>>
>> The problem with "simply run unstable", in my experience, is that
>> unstable
>> doesn't work. I guess that's why they call it "unstable". ;) I
>> don't even
>> pull packages from unstable if I can avoid it, but there's some stuff
>> that
>> works fine, but doesn't seem likely to make it into the stable
>> release until
>> some time next decade.
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