Safety of Upgrading Unstable
I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good
times. I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for
problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that
many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). But, I'm curious to know
how safe/dangerous it is to just say 'apt-get upgrade' presently. I
know there are a lot of changes with kde / gcc / libc, but will it leave
me in a runnable state? I'm using gnome from garnome right now, so
anything going on with gnome/kde doesn't conern me. However, when I use
aptitude to show me what will be upgraded/removed/installed during the
upgrade, it is removing some packages that I would think shouldn't be
removed. I don't need to hear that I shouldn't be running unstable
because it is 'unstable'. I've chosen to run it and enjoy living on the
bleeding edge of debian, but this is going to be my first upgrade and
don't know how much I should blindly trust these things. Should I
upgrade now or wait for the transition to gcc3.2 to end?
--Mark.
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