Re: A question for the list:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 02:35:48 -0600, Boyd wrote in message
<[🔎] 201011070235.48667.bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
> In <[🔎] 20101106225444.0fb2698f@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message
> ><[🔎] 87lj57y4x3.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org>:
> >> Arnt Karlsen writes:
> >> > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite live
> >> > up to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these
> >> > PR'y buzzwords. ;o)
> >>
> >> Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to
> >> be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental
> >> packages.
> >
> >..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and,
> >Chuck Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o)
>
> Because not every package has a version in experimental. It is
> structured like backports, packages are only added as needed. This
> means that there may be times when either there there is no version
> of essential packages (think libc or dpkg) in experimental or that
> version is actually older than the version in unstable/Sid.
>
> Just like backports, it is meant to be an addition to some other
> complete version of Debian. Backports is usually mixed with stable.
> Experimental is usually mixed with unstable/Sid.
>
> While I don't recommend it, you certainly *could* install Sid and
> then pull in every package from experimental that had a version in
> experimental. That would be roughly equivalent to flying an
> experimental plane.
..correct, and rejecting all bit's that needs more hammering
to fit until they do fit, then fly and see what happens. ;o)
> What you can't do is install experimental. That would be roughly
> equivalent trying to get airborne with just a set of experimental
> wings and control services but no fuselage or instruments.
..yup, works quite well since 1903. ;o)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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