On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:20:50AM +0200, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote: > Steve, > > >And as others have pointed out, the purpose of stable is to minimize > >disruptions. For many users, living with known bugs with known workarounds > >is a *lot* better than identifying new bugs. > > Yeas. Let the choice to the user. Don't dictate him.
Well, I really cannot see your point. If you do not like how stable is done at the moment in Debian, but do like how it is done in whatever other distro - use that distro. Nobody forces anything on you. This is all about choice. > Whoever wants to > use the old software w/o change, let be it. Whoever wants the new one, > noticed about the risks, let's give him an official and supported way to > do it. Fist of all, there is such a way: use testing, most of the time it is fairly safe to use. Learn how to put packages on hold and how to get back if something goes wrong. [ skipped ] > Let the users choose, whether they want to upgrade. =) OMG, I do not think that somebody really forces me when to run apt-get upgrade and what packages to install and from what repository. > Repeat, let there be easy downgrade option for the case things don't > work as expected. man sources.list man apt_preferences http://snapshot.debian.net/ If you maintain more than one machine - setup a local repository and fill it with the versions of the packages you like. Including backported ones, learn how to backport. -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
