--On Friday, April 23, 2004 5:25 PM -0700 Evan Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd say that the danger level is about the same as beta software. The potential for drive erasure or data loss is low--the package's setup would have to be seriously fouled up.How dangerous is using packages from the unstable tree? Same as beta software? Potential for your drive to be erased or to lose data?
Evan
I'd say the danger level is lower. As has been pointed out here in the past, the principle risk is that packages don't compile. But if that ever happens, one can still build the version in stable.
What passes as beta software lately varies greatly, depending on the company usually. Much of it should rightly be considered alpha, and data corruption and loss are not out of the question. Out of thousands of fink packages, I've only once ever seen data loss with a package in fink unstable and ironically, it was done by one of the sharpest, best packagers. The package was immediately pulled and fink was changed after that to prevent that from happening again.
But reasonable people could differ on their opinions about this, and Alexander's opinion is always esteemed. :-)
James
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