On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 20:59 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Hideki Yamane]
> > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
> >
> > So, is there plan to enable by default?
> >
> > Most of desktop users doesn't get used to edit system files, and
> > enabling it solves some problems can help it, IMO.
>
> Enabling backports by default is pretty much equivalent to just
> putting updates directly in stable.
>
> Or, to put it another way, the reason backports exists is also the
> reason not to enable it by default.
The low priority of *-backports should mean that no-one can install from
them by accident.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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- John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987
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