All my network is running Debian except my workstation, which is running Mepis. Overall it's worked okay, but every now and then I hit a glitch with I don't think I'd have with pure Debian, since Mepis uses both testing and unstable for sources. (Any comments or insight welcome, flames and religious discussion unwelcome!)
Oh, and I might add that I'm finishing a project. When it's done, I plan on backing up /home, wiping the drive, using 3 partitions and making one stable and one unstable, so I can use pure Sid, but have a backup when needed (the 3rd partition would be /home). So for now, I only want thing to work for the next month or two. I'm not anticipating upgrading many programs I install now. (I *really* want to get off Mepis and mixed sources and go to straight Debian!) So there's no need to tell me to change the system -- I intend to anyway. Right now I'm having trouble with Eclipse 3.1, which I installed through apt. It's stopped working. I've tried apt-get remove --purge eclipse, then re-installing, and it doesn't help. I was thinking of installing Eclipse from eclipse.org. I just recently had a problem upgrading Firefox through apt, so I downloaded and installed it in /home/hal and I was going to do the same with Eclipse. I realized in both cases I'm installing a program in /home/hal and not in the /usr directory tree. If I'm installing programs that are intended for one user in /home, what kind of effects does that have on dependencies and other parts of the apt system? if I install a program from a tarball, am I better off installing it in my home dir than somewhere in /usr? If I do, does it "isolate" it from other installs? Any comments on this are welcome. I prefer apt, but I've had to install a few programs like this and I am wondering about the overall effects. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
