Re: potato+slink

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote:
> 
> I read before that potato is a duplication of slink, and the potato's
> tree are just link to slink.
> 
> And each time a new application is generated to potato the link to this
> become a new file.
> 
> So if this is true, why using slink+potato but not just potato in
> apt-source?


	Early in the development of the unstable distribution (currently
potato) there are a large number of gaps between slink and
potato.  Syncing up only with potato would result in an incomplete
dist.  As potato gets closer to release it is possible at some
point to rely just on potato.  In the meantime, there is nothing
wrong with using both slink + potato with apt's sources.list.


>         in fact i understood that if someone is using slink + some
> potatos it is usefull
>         but with apt that make an auto upgrade it is really dangerous.
> 
> I ask this because i want to have a new computer with slink+some_potatos


	If you are only interested in a couple of potato packages, you
may be better off just using slink in apt, and then manually
download and install with dpkg the potato packages you want.


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