On Die, 2003-01-21 at 07:39, Erik Steffl wrote: > it looks like there are more and more broken packages. I have been > using unstable for few years and generally there were no problems, all > packages where upgradable, no version mismatch etc. > How is the situation of testing > now? is that the one that unstable used to be (=current enough and > stable enough)? (I mean the real state of testing, not what it's > supposed to be) Hi! I am happily running a mixed testing/unstable system. Read the apt_preferences man page and create /etc/apt/preferences with something like ======== Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 ======== then put both testing and unstable in your sources.list. I never use dselect any more, heavy use of apt-cache policy, apt-cache show(pkg) and apt-get solves most problems. I run basically testing, but lately more unstable software came into it: I've now switched to gnome2, and use the newest evolution - both depend on a recent libc, so that's from unstable, too. Also, I'm using C++ now and then, with the newest g++ 3.2 from unstable. All the rest is testing software - and yes, the dependency problems exist occasionally, and now with the C++ transition in the works it's worse than it was, but apart from kde2 and gnome2 not being installable in parallel I've not noticed anything that worries me (i.e. affects software I use regularly). cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys
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