Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)
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> I'm worried we'll have
> people just happily adding experimental to their sources.list and silently
> dragging in all sorts of *other* experimental packages that they didn't
> want and don't realise are experimental.
Ah, so thanks to Volker Schlecht who has kindly pointed me to the
apt_preferences manpage which I somehow missed in my search for
experimental/pinning documentation, I'm now happy that this (unwanted
experimental upgrades) won't happen automatically.
AFAICT though the modifications to /etc/apt/preferences will still be
non-trivial with the very large number of KDE packages; again I could be
wrong, having never used experimental myself.
And so I will nevertheless stick with the main point of my previous post which
was, if we're going to use experimental, to argue for very clear
documentation to be available on just what to do with APT configuration
before any experimental KDE3 packages are announced.
Ben.
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