eric dan schrieb: > how safe is it to use unstable and testing? > actually i've read about testing a little on the wiki and it seems that > testing really is ONLY testing. > but what about the 'unstable' repo? > in debian for instance the unstable stuff is really usable. > thanks
You can't compare this to Debian. Unstable is for packages, that are considered unstable, like OpenOffice 2 when it was beta, or cvs versions of packages, that are in current/extra. Some of them are pretty out of date (the unstable version of cdrtools is older than the one from current/extra). There aren't many packages in there anyway. Packages in testing are new package versions that might break on update, so they are put in testing for a few days/weeks before they move to current or extra. If you put testing to the top of your pacman.conf, you can participate in testing the new packages, with the risk to break certain functionality. unstable and testing are no "separate distributions" like they are in debian. Have a look at http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?s_repo=3 http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?s_repo=4 Greets Thomas _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
