On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 05:39:45PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 07:13:16AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > You understand, don't you, that sid is not a 'distribution'. It's > > simply a random collection of freshly uploaded, untested, bleeding > > edge software, with dependency issues, bugs, and things that go bump > > in the night. > > > > The ordered list is 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'exprimentel', in > code name is the order list (at this moment) 'woody', 'sarge', 'sarge', 'sid' Hmmm? woody = stable, sarge = testing, sid = unstable, experimental = experimental. experimental isn't even a proper distro, afaik, just a staging area for testing packages before they hit sid. > If you want to avoid 'testing', use 'stable', at this moment 'woody' I think the OP's original question was more about directly installing sid, rather than avoiding testing for a particular reason. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: kilo class LABLINK espionage AFSPC freedom Fat Man Aladdin
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