In <20101106225444.0fb26...@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message ><87lj57y4x3....@thumper.dhh.gt.org>: >> Arnt Karlsen writes: >> > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite live up >> > to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these PR'y >> > buzzwords. ;o) >> >> Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to be a >> complete distribution: just an archive for experimental packages. > >..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and, >Chuck Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o)
Because not every package has a version in experimental. It is structured like backports, packages are only added as needed. This means that there may be times when either there there is no version of essential packages (think libc or dpkg) in experimental or that version is actually older than the version in unstable/Sid. Just like backports, it is meant to be an addition to some other complete version of Debian. Backports is usually mixed with stable. Experimental is usually mixed with unstable/Sid. While I don't recommend it, you certainly *could* install Sid and then pull in every package from experimental that had a version in experimental. That would be roughly equivalent to flying an experimental plane. What you can't do is install experimental. That would be roughly equivalent trying to get airborne with just a set of experimental wings and control services but no fuselage or instruments. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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