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Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)



In <[🔎] 20100220094135.GC12492@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>Right
>now, stable and testing have too much gap usually to be useful.

That's not true.  I mix stable/backports/testing/unstable/experimental.  
Roughly 78% of my systems is packages from stable with the remainder mostly 
from testing.

Packages installed: 1688
Version from stable/security/volatile: 1318
Version from backports: 34
Version from testing/security: 239
Version from unstable: 94
Version from experimental: 0
Local packages: 3
	nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-trunk-amd6 - NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.
	pq                              - Progress Quest is a "fire and forget" comp
	w64codecs                       - win64 binary codecs

Aptitude requires more use of the interactive resolver than in a pure system, 
but other than that (which I am very comfortable with), I actually am 
encountering fewer bugs than when I used stable+backports.

This is also specific to my package selection.  Users of different bits of 
software may find that much more of testing/unstable needs to be pulled in.  

Osamu is absolutely correct that this is an advanced setup.  It requires an 
attentive and knowledgeable system administrator, and has only minimal support 
form the DDs themselves.  (They provide you plenty of rope with which you can 
hang yourself.)

>(experimental's preference is set to 1 with reason.)

Backports is set to 1 as well. :P
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