Is woo the new w00t? My dad has used the word w00t a few times so it is implicitly no longer cool. You may be on to something with woo.
Woo.
And chiming in with Ross, how is using back ports defeat the ease of apt while using testing and unstable doesn't? At least with the KDE back port, you just add a line to your sources.list.
And in case someone is following along from Google-land, I think dselect probably is a good idea if you want to be really cautious about not breaking something. But it usually isn't worth the extra effort and certainly isn't if your flagrantly doing what your not supposed to do, in regard to system stability, like Nate.
Nathaniel Green wrote:
Woo TSLUG.
Mixing them seemed like the right thing to do, to maintain the ability to get security updates - Debian only maintains security patches for the stable version.
I agree w/ you about dpackage at this point. Bleh.
I agree that it is possible to find the packages for Debian stable (eg: backports.org) but this seems like a hack, and seems also to defeat the ease of apt.
My solution at the moment is to only use apt. It seems to be going alright. I'm mixing all three versions at my leisure. Woo indeed. Nate
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 03:00, Ian Monroe wrote:
When I used Debian on my computer I always found dselect to be a bother and started using apt-get exclusively. This was back in the day when woody had just been released. So long long ago.
My opinion is that you shouldn't mix default testing and unstable. At the KDE website they have packages for KDE 3.1.5 for Debian stable, seems like you should be able to find unofficial up-to-date packages for Mozilla and other popular pieces of software as well. Not that I know where to look. You could just run unstable, but my understanding is that your computer is lucky to be running at all. Might as well not push it.
Hmm. I check my mail at 2:50 in the morning and all of the new mail is from TSLUG. That must mean we're just cool.
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