I've been a user of Debian for 6 months or so now - including a sucessfull upgrade to 1.2 via ftp and a \HUGE stack of floppies, but I still have great problems understanding what all the directories on the ftp sites contain.
Could anyone tell me what the rex-updates and rex-fixed directories are for? I would have assumed that any packages with serious bugs would be fixed in the standard rex... If not, what is rex still there for with 'broken' packages in it? And what happens when you replace your 'rex' packages file with the 'rex-fixed' one - Does it tell you you need to upgrade all your packages to rex-fixed level? It would seem simpler to me if we just had two directories containing the base, x11, non-free, contrib, etc directories: Debian-1.2, which is 'fixed' of important bugs as they are cleared and would be used by almost every 'user', and Debian-1.2-devel, which contains the most up-do-date working release of each package, for use by 'developers'. Then you install just one of two package.gz files - one for the fixed version which changes infrequently, and one for those cutting edge Debianites who want the latest of everything. Of course you could also install any devel packages individually as needed. OK, you would probably need other directories for unstable/experimental work, but most of us could ignore these. Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
