Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;)
I'm curious about this. I've been running pure sid for over a year and have never had anything break <knockwood>.
What is people's experience with this?
I agree with Thomas Jollans. Unstable breaks once in a while (atleast
for me). There were times when couple of my favorites were uninstallable
(like labplot, texmacs etc.,) and there were times when there will be
GPG errors from the mirrors, there were times when kde was not fully
installable, there were times when kernel upgrade was painful due to
yaird/initrd issue. I can go on and on about this. But the conclusion is
that unstable is not for everybody. If you are planning to use unstable,
better be sure of what you are landing into - A land of chaos :-)
At the end of the day, I still use unstable. I dont know why! Something
drags me into it, I think :-)
And yes, I update. probably about once a week, though if I see something
critical in the list of packages to upgrade (like anything to do with X) then
I'll wait a few more days just in case.
Now a days, I dont upgrade my sid box at all. Only when I want to report
a bug against a package, I check to see if there is a new version of it
and check if the new version solves the problem. Otherwise, I never
upgrade the package.
raju
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