"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue Oct 30 19:23:39 2001 Brian Nelson wrote... > > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Are ther any .debs avaialable for the latest version of GnuCash, > >>for a potato based system? > > Why even bother to run potato if you want to install a whole load of > >unstable (in the literal sense, not as in sid) libraries with shaky > >dependencies? > > > ???? > > I just want a more modern version of GnuCash, than is in potato. Are > you saying potato has the latest STABLE version of GunCash? > > I'm confused.
Stability in the Debian sense has to do with the entire system, not just a single package. Sid is unstable because its packages are constantly changing and the system is always mutating. Potato is stable because it *never* changes, except for security updates. Potato is finished. There is very little reason to update packages on potato, because you're really undermining the stability of the system. Potato exists to be an extremely reliable system that doesn't break. Therefore, it's great for servers that need the uptime and minimal maintenance. However, it sucks as a desktop system for most people because the packages are so out of date. It is against Debian's policy to even fix any of the bugs in these packages that are of "important" priority or lower, so many of the out-of-date packages don't even work very well. If you want more up-to-date packages, by definition you want to run a less "stable" distrobution--in other words, sid or woody. In the Debian world, up-to-date is inversely proportional to stable. Trying to install an up-to-date gnucash on potato is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
