Am 29. Jul, 2003 schw=E4tzte Derek Neighbors so:

> Personally, I suggest avoiding Testing like the plague.  If you need the
> latest and greatest of a LOT of packages run "unstable".  If you upgrade

Personally, I avoid unstable like the plague :). Testing works great, but
sometimes you have to wait a little for things to show up.

Seldom do I run into a real problem. Currently I can't resize windows when
using sawfish/gnome. I switched to KDE. It's been a couple of years since I
used it, so I see it as an opportunity :). This is about the only testing
problem that's really been an issue that might not have been an issue in
unstable in several years.

> packages you know are good to upgrade you will be much more stable than
> testing.  That is take the extra time to track the mailing lists, so you
> don't do upgrades when major things are in transition.
>
> If you only need cutting edge packages of a few +popular things (you note=
d
> gnome2, evolution and gnucash).  I would STRONGLY suggest you run stable
> (woody) and go to apt-get.org.  From there you can find a sources.list
> entry to add to your woody install.  That will install evolution, gnome2,
> mozilla, gnucash etc all backported to woody.
>
> It is much cleaner to run woody and get back ported packages (usually mad=
e
> by the maintainers of the real packages anyhow) than it is to track
> testing/unstable to only get a few "popular" packages.

I agree it's cleaner. We need the woody-and-a-half source for this to reall=
y
make it clean, though.

ciao,

der.hans
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