On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:39:32 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:52, Chris Bannister >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> >> Chris writes: >> >> > experimental is unsupported on this list. >> >> >> >> That isn't true, though there may be few (if any) other people here >> >> using any given package therefrom. >> > >> > I wouldn't reccommend that its ok to mix experimental, etc. willy nilly, >> > and then expect to get help when it all goes belly up. > > Agreed. I'd most likely suggest that you purge the package and install the > unstable version to try and reproduce the issue. > > ISTR one of the DDs on debian-kde requesting volunteers to install some > packages from experimental and report bugs. But generally, packages in > experimental may not be fit for end-users and the DDs may not want bug reports > yet. > >> <shug> Experimental works fine for me, generally. > > Note that adding experimental to your /etc/apt/sources.list{.d} is not > sufficient to actually start pulling packages from there.
I am aware of this. I manually choose the experimental versions (or not). Currently, I have quit a few, including dev versions of gtk, atk, glib, cairo, and various apps. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
