On Thursday 22 April 2004 03:49 am, Paul Scott wrote: >Paul Johnson wrote: >>>I disagree. I've been running sid for almost 2 years now and even >>>though I realized I knew the answer to that question after I saw the >>>answer I probably don't know the answer to quite a few similar >>>questions. >> >>OK, but my point is that it's a prerequisite that you need to be a >>fairly experienced Debian user to use sid. That means having at least >>decent, working knowledge of the packaging system. If you don't have >>that, you're probably far better off running stable and using >>backports as desired. > ><picky> >I didn't even have that much Debian experience or even Linux >experience. I needed a package that was only in sid and I installed >it. I just dealt with the problems as they came up. I have never >figured dselect out and just switched to aptitude after seeing several >comments on this list. ></picky> > >Paul
My experience mirrors that of Mr. Scott. Mr. Johnson is off-base here. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
