John Hasler wrote: ... > *Don't* "track" Testing or Unstable by upgrading nightly. I don't > understand why people want to do this. A full upgrade (after a test > upgrade) about once a month is plenty.
different people have different purposes. :) my reasons for my morning routine is to determine what is being changed or worked on in the packages that i use/have on this machine. most days i scan the proposed updates and see that they are things i don't mind if they get updated. they're not too likely to impact the few things i do the most. so for me to just get them updated means the next time i do use them i will either help with the testing part or more likely i won't notice any difference at all. which is good. if i do see a bug and have the time to report it then i've done what i consider part of my giving back to the developers and users of the same code base. they can at least be aware that somewhere ahead "There May Be Dragons!" having a nice running computer system that does what i want and expect is my goal. to do that at times means i can't always keep exactly up to date so i will put some updates on hold until i have a bit more time to investigate or ask questions or file bugs or ... > If you have packages you need to have the current release of wait until > they've been available for a week or so without serious or important > bugs that would matter to you. Then do a test upgrade so that you can > decide whether you can go right ahead, have to do a full upgrade to make > it work, or perhaps should wait a bit. yes, if something looks very intrusive to the basic packages i use every day i try to make sure i have time set aside to make sure it all goes as expected. most often in the past that has meant 99.99% of the time that i don't have any problems at all. once in a while "stuff happens[tm]" and having a booting stable set up is sufficient for me to get what i need done accomplished. > I've been doing this with Unstable for most of this century with very > few problems (and none recently). > > And a caveat: I don't use either Gnome or KDE. ditto. they kept changing in ways that got in the way of my workflows/habits/expectations. songbird