On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Sean wrote: > > > I don't see how blindly attempting to install unstable packages into a > > stable distribution is a Debian install issue. > > No, it's a Debian *policy* issue. The problem is the absurdly long > time between releases, so it's very hard to use stable on halfway-new > equipment, or if you want halfway-modern functionality. (For > instance, I'm being forced to "upgrade" [downgrade in stability] to > testing soon, just because my new motherboard has hardware not > supported by potato.) Which implies a kernel issue ... if that's the case, you can install Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages for potato (URL in another recent thread). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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