| Jeff Abrahamson on 19 Aug 2004 16:10:03 -0000 |
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:40:06PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > i don't know what the story is with gnome, but istr a year or so back > a situation with kde where for a couple months it was uninstallable. > i wouldn't have noticed on my machines apart from the fact that i had > a bunch of packages held back (since it couldn't meet the dependencies, > it wouldn't upgrade them), but i had some friends who got burned pretty > badly by dist-upgrading and losing kde. Did you only upgrade rather than dist-upgrade? > wrt security, testing is actually the worst place to be, because you > don't have the excellent infrastructure that stable provides and at > the same time have to wait for updates to trickle in from unstable > (which can sometimes get the fixes before stable). typically, this > means an extra 24 hours or so of waiting for an update, but if there > are any problems with the package or its dependencies in sid, it can > be much longer. > > this is why i usually recommend either a stable/testing mix (where a > small number of packages are selectively pulled in from testing, and > the remaining packages are still tracking security), or a testing/unstable > mix (where packages are pulled in from unstable on an as-needed basis). Assuming you'd upgrade daily or even notice the security alert that fast. Most people probably will hear about a security problem only a few days later. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20 Attachment:
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