Re: Error installing texlive-base
El lun, 18 oct 2021 a las 9:07, Andrei POPESCU
(<andreimpopescu@gmail.com>) escribió:
>
> On Vi, 15 oct 21, 10:39:54, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote:
> >
> > Actually, yes. Why? Due to confinement, my home PC has also been my
> > office PC. And
> > since I had a working machine, decided to upgrade packages only if
> > strictly necessary.
>
> As you found out (the hard way), the "strictly necessary" isn't always
> obvious.
>
> > Although I have installed reportbug to watch out for reported issues,
> > upgrades in unstable
> > can break important things and that cost has not been acceptable for
> > me for a long time.
>
> Switch to stable then ;)
>
> You were already using packages older than latest stable, so what is the
> benefit of running (something that appeared to be) unstable?
>
Living? :-)
I mean, I guess we all have our pressures, work/family/etc., so in the
end it's a balance between
things, and the perceived time one has to fix things if they break.
>From the very beginning, when I started using Debian (back in potato
times)
I have run stable at work, and unstable at home, with periodic
updates. To try new features in advance, to try new software in
advance,
whatever. And eventually, less time to play, and a variable risk
disposition. Life is always complex, and computers are a part of it.
Victor
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