Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:49:09PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:01:11PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > Well, here is what my existing /etc/apt/preferences file looks like:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: 900
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=stable
> > Pin-Priority: 500
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=unstable
> > Pin-Priority: 95
> >
> > Should I drop the stable entry?
>
> Well ... why do you think that you need it? Mixing stable, testing, and
> unstable is almost always a bad idea. They were never designed to work
> that way.
>
So, you are syaing:
1. There is NO program in stable that a testing or unstable version of does
not exist?
2. I should just use 1 distribution? If so, which one?
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