on 16:35 Tue 26 Jul, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > > Chromium and Firefox. > > > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and > > Firefox 5 isn't available either. > > > > I'd like to manage either / both from my package repos, but be > > reasonably current. > > > > What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > Not sure about best practices, I like staying with stable and will use > Debian backports. No longer a proponent of apt pinning sid & testing, > or other repo's.
Yeah, I've done this in the past, but my experience, especially on laptops, is that a good configuration is a fragile thing. Fortunately I stick with older window managers, but my experiences with GNOME and KDE changing out from under me have been particularly traumatic. > Iceweasel (Firefox) 5.x entered Sid recently. I think once it migrates to > testing, it will be a candidate for squeeze-backports. I actually am pinning stable right now with unstable sources available. My experience going down that route though is that it's a short trip to frustration. > I have squeeze-backports added to my sources.list & > /etc/apt/preferences files. I'll try that first. Thanks. -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110727022904.gb16...@altaira.krellpowersys.exo
