Re: woody, sarge, or sid?
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:49, Gezim H wrote:
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> On the other hand if I get
> sarge or sid is my system gonna crush often, how unstable is really sid? If
> I get sid, and I want to install gimp, with "apt-get install gimp" is it
> gonna install gimp 1.3 (unstable)? Does sid use unstable packages too? How
> much more stable is sarge then sid? Is sid ever gonna become stable?
> Please give me some advise.
Just a quick note, stable/unstable does not refer to the quality of the
software itself, stable means that every package has been checked to
verify that the dependencies are correct, so you should never have
dependency issues on stable, testing is close to the same, unstable
means that there may be times when package a depends on version x of
package b but package b is at version y so you have have uninstallable
packages. This is usually quite minimal though, I have been running
unstable for a couple years and have seen this relatively few times
(it's quite avoidable). Occasionally beta versions or snapshots of
packages will be put in unstable, but that's not really what it is all
about.
-Mark
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