On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:27:59AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > You never really run just Sid. If you run Sid, then you run > > testing/unstable (or lenny/sid in this case). This is because as > > packages propagate from unstable to testing, then they are no longer in > > unstable. If you only have unstable in your sources.list, you will find > > that you cannot install certain pacakges, as their dependencies will no > > longer be available to you. > > Of course this is 100% incorrect, packages are not removed from unstable > when they migrate to testing; packages in unstable don't have broken > dependencies on packages in testing. > > Randomly speculating on the lists and passing it off as authoratative: > bad idea. > I was told long ago (about four years ago now), by a friend whom I consider to be very knowledgeable about Debian, that you can't run with just unstable in your sources.list. Having never had a reason to doubt him, that is how I have run my machines on unstable. If that is wrong, then I apologize. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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