On Tuesday 13 September 2005 21:37, Patrick Dreker wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. September 2005 21.14 schrieb C. Hurschler: > > I'm curious as to the advantages of running a backported version to > > haveing a mixed system with KDE at Sid level. Is there any technical > > reason not to use a mixed system? > > SID will deviate from Sarge further and further, and with the gcc > transition there already are Library incompatibilities, which may cause > real headaches later on. > > Generally running mixed environments works, as long as the two dists don'Ät > deviate too far from each other. Stable + Etch or SID should genrally be > avoided in my opinion. That just causes more problems than it is worth in > the long run. Combining Etch (testing) with SID (unstable) is simpler, as > long one doesn't "flood" the testing system with SID packages. > > As often the answer is more like "it depends" than a general resolution ;-) > > Patrick
Thanks, I guess I'd like to know more concreteley what types of problems could occur. Will apt install libraries on an otherwise Sarge system, during a KDE upgrade for instance, that could break the system? I have a partition image of my system at Sarge state, so that I can go back in a matter of minutes if things get screwed up. Chris -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 30173 Hannover 0172-5940909
