On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:46 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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. I have been running with JUST unstable for years. I've also got experimental in there. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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