On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 08:35:15AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 08:36:31AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Grap X 4.3 from > > deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xfree86/ woody main > > from the same guy who maintains backports.org. > > This is exactly what I posted about before: the "make the user do the work > and defeat the purpose of a unified distribution" non-solution.
I concur. However, with debian, it is _way_ easier to use other sources than it was in say, redhat. > And again: I do this stuff. The web/mail server I administer has stuff from > backports on it. It's a philosophically a bad idea, practically makes > things harder, and semantically changes the meaning of the word "stable". As opposed to releasing sarge pretty soon, yes. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
