On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:04:40PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > > Matthew> I upgraded my wife to Debian/unstable on her laptop to get > Matthew> X working ... despite its name, it works pretty well. > Matthew> Mozilla's been a bone of contention, but it's fixed now. > > Not my experience at all. I'm running Debian/unstable on my > workstation at work and I do about a bi-weekly "apt-get update". > Every time it upgrades on the order of 100MB of packages. Apart from > X, mozilla, and gnome-panel are repeated sources of problems. Not to > mention that sawfish is simply broken when used with gnome-panel and > metacity is a terrible window-manager in my experience. > > For a concrete example, just yesterday "gnome-panel" was "held back" > and the apparent reason is the mess with the .la files in /usr/lib.
since this is on the ia64 list, i assume we're talking about ia64. in that case, david is right, i wouldn't recommend running sid on ia64 for anyone who isn't willing to fix bugs. i run sid/ia64 at work, for the express reason of making sure these bugs are found before a stable release - in the past couple months, xchat, apache, gnumeric, evolution, and various pieces of gnome have been broken. sid/x86 has been pretty painfree.
