Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

From: Aaron (aaron_at_core-dev.com)
Date: 08/14/03

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    On -2406-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com> spake thus,
    > I know your question was about Testing, and I answered with Unstable.
    > You can do the same thing to go to testing if you want, but I don't
    > reccomend it. Don't do testing unless you're just doing a package or two
    > mixed with stable until they do a freeze on testing. Just because a package
    > is in testing doesn't mean it's ready for use. You can search the archives
    > for more on this, but the basic idea I got from people is that unstable is
    > a better choice than testing if you want to try out the new packages.

    I was under the impression that the progression from "most reliable"
    to "most chaotic" was Stable -> Testing -> Unstable. Is that not so?

    I'm also wholeheartedly against doing any sort of distribution hybrid
    after reading horror stories of avalanching dependency problems
    branching from trying to install testing or unstable packages in a
    stable install and ending up with multiple major versions of libraries
    and things... I don't want to deal with that. 

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