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Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).
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Miles Bader |
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Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never). |
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Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:59:50 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:44:58AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > Do you have `testing' or `unstable' in your sources.list?
>
> Ah! No. But I'd like to avoid installing such versions by
> apt-get. I always install testing version in
> /usr/local/... by getting source and compiling it.
I wouldn't worry too much about it -- "unstable" is actually quite reliable
generally (failures are almost always of the form "package won't upgrade",
which of course leaves you wait the old version still installed).
"testing" is even better: it's like unstable without the occasional problems
unstable has, albeit a tiny bit older.
My vague rules are:
* For a personal machine with a fast net connection (so downloading fixes
is fast), use "unstable" -- the frequent upgrades and quick bugfixes are
more than worth the occasional (and usually minor) problem.
* For a personal machine with a slow net connection, or where you don't
want to do frequent updates, use "testing". Weighing the (small)
_potential_ for unstability in "testing" versus the rather old (and often
buggy) software in "stable", testing almost always wins.
* For a big department server, where changes can affect many people, maybe
"stable" is justified -- but even here, you probably want to download
both package lists, and install some packages from testing as well,
where the stable version is simply too stupidly old.
-Miles
--
`Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities.
But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that
they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., (continued)
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Richard Stallman, 2004/04/11
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Miles Bader, 2004/04/11
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Richard Stallman, 2004/04/13
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/16
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/16
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/16
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/17
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/19
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/19
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/19
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/19
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/11
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/12
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kenichi Handa, 2004/04/12
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/13
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- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Richard Stallman, 2004/04/14
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Lőrentey Károly, 2004/04/15
- Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never)., Richard Stallman, 2004/04/16