Re: What about a user-contrib directory?
ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es (Enrique Zanardi) writes:
> On 17 Oct 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > I learned making my own Debian packages mainly out of the need to keep
> > my 'stable' based system up to date since i'm not very content with
> > the way 'stable' is kept in tune with the release frequency of the
> > upstream author's versions.
>
> What's wrong with following "unstable" if you want to be at the bleeding
> edge?
>
This is definitely too much bleeding edge if one simply wants a
functioning system with more recent software. Following unstable
means at least migration to libc6 and therefore probably lots of
hassles just because i want updated versions of certain packages on a
stable system. There just has to be a possibility to upgrade portions
of one's system without major undertakings like going from a.out to
ELF or from libc5 to libc6. I can't see any point in abandoning
'stable' in regard of updating certain packages to be up to date and
at the same time exclusively concentrating on an 'unstable'
development cycle which introduces far too much possible problems to
warrant troublefree functioning. Debian should not be for developers
only but is developed for it's users, right? So why are the users
needs of keeping their stable system up to date with current software
simply forgotten?
Thanks for your comments, P. *8^)
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