On Apr 19, 2015, at 9:48 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Did you check if it really was back ports?
Yes. I've been using Debian GNU/Linux since.. 'bo' or something and a DD since '97 or so. I know what I'm doing (98% of the time :). > I use backports on all machines I care about, and I never had dependency > problems from backports (so far I remember). Good for you. Maybe it's better now, but my opinion still stands. Because of the reason I've already mentioned, but also because it's not maintained and tested as well (as KiBi said). If someone wants newer version, they can (should!) upgrade to the newer distribution. OR, if they're brave, use back ports. > If you don't want backports for some reason, is easy to disable them in > sources.list. Why!? Why should _I_ adapt to YOUR opinion? What makes you think that YOUR opinion is the only, correct one?? Debian GNU/Linux don't enable contrib and non-free by default (or does it now, haven't checked). And yet _I_ choose to use packages from there. Why shouldn't EVERYONE be 'forced' to disable that, just to accommodate me?! Same with back ports. They're not really part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Only 'main' is. The're all provided on the Debian GNU/Linux servers, but they're not the official distribution. So only 'main' should be enabled by default by the installer. Besides, why are you still arguing about this? The decision have been made. Live with it. If you really, really think this decision is in error, then lobby for changing it in the next release. Now, the discussion is moot and pointless - "suck it up". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
