On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use > pure > > |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had > recently > > |> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem. > > | > > | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable. > > Now that's an interesting idea. Makes sense. It sounds like I should > either learn to live with stable packages only, or go all out testing. >
There's a middle way too, at least for me. I run stable for almost everything, but if there's a feature I really can't live without, I go ~x86 on the specific package and <emphasis>version</emphasis> that has the feature I want. The advantage from my point of view is that the ~arch stuff becomes moot automatically, and I revert to stable as time goes on and the subject version goes stable or is superceded by a later version that does so. That package does not have to live on the bleeding edge forever. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
