Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:03:46 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
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> There is no longer going to be any such thing as a standard Debian
> installation. Each box, and each snapshot, could have different
> versions of important packages -- everything from glibc to KDE or Gnome.
> The user experience will be different, the security updates -- if they
> exist -- will be different, effect different packages, and bear
> different versions. Not to mention that all of these are different than
> the real stable release.
>
> In short, an administration nightmare worse than Gentoo.
..And this is why I recommend basing releases on stable, rather than
arbitrary snapshots of unstable. Doing a snapshot of unstable just seems
silly; you might as well stop calling it Debian.
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