On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:57:49PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > if you're using backports.org, you may as well be using unstable. > > > > I do, but for development purposes only, like many. If it's about me, I > > use apache 1.3, php4 and mysql4.0 because I don't need anything else. > > But it's NOT about me this time, it's about other people, and I can tell > > you that there are a lot doing this. > > you miss the point. backports is no better than unstable. once you use > it on a stable system, you've stopped running stable. > > if you think a 'stable' system with some packages from backports is > still 'stable' then you are just fooling yourself. it's not.
btw, the other thing that makes backports just like 'unstable' is that you should test every upgrade on another machine *BEFORE* you upgrade production servers. you obviously didn't do that. otherwise you would have found the problem before b0rking your server. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BOFH excuse #191: Just type 'mv * /dev/null'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
