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Albert Hopkins schrieb: |
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> [snip] |
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> But they are wrong ;-) |
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> I'm actually against mixing testing and stable branches. Here's why. |
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> People choose "stable" because they are under the impression that it's |
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> somehow "safer" or "less troublesome" than "testing" (or what some |
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> people call "unstable"). I'm not so sure I agree but that's not my |
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> argument. My argument is when these people go and then try to get the |
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> "best of both worlds" by inter-marrying the branches. From my |
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> experience these people end up with less stable systems than choosing |
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> either "stable" or "testing". The problem is that they are mixing |
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> software that were not tested or intended to run with each other. And |
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> they come into problems even people in the so-called "unstable" branch |
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> don't experience. Recent examples include Xorg and GNOME updates. So |
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> these people, and the majority of them are newbies, come to think Gentoo |
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> is flaky but it's really their behavior. |
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> |
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> [snip] |
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Hi, |
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this for shure is not right, if you are only running few testing |
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programs. I'd never run ~amd64 just for youtube-dl to be working fine. |
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kh |
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