Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?
darkestkhan writes:
> Also frequent ( I'm doing upgrade at least 2 times a day ) upgrades
> are really sorting out most of inter-release changes that may ( or may
> not ) happen in Sid.
I've been running Sid ever since it was created. I just upgrade
individual packages as needed and do a dist-upgrade a couple of times a
year (avoiding things like major library transitions, of course).
> Also packages in Sid or experimental can have unsatisfied
> dependencies.
One reason why trying to "track" Sid seems like pointless masochism.
> For entire year ( I started using GNU/Linux year ago and from the
> beginning I was using sid / experimnetal ) of running sid /
> experimental I never had to recover my system.
I've only had to do it once, many years ago when I got tangled in a
broken libc transition (of course, I don't use a "desktop
environment"...)
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John Hasler
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