On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 14:02 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Is there is any distro with binaries from "trunk/master" ( depending on > if you prefer svn or git ;) ) up to date? It would be quite strange, but > sounds nice.
Arch Linux comes with binaries for the current stable releases from upstream. This nearly has no drawback, for servers you perhaps still prefer to hold a package and to test updates by a test install first, even while everything was tested by the test repository. For let's say a professional audio production environment you simply can update to current stable releases and if needed (but it usually isn't needed) downgrade packages from cache. Arch is a "real" rolling release and there perhaps are other stable rolling releases out there. Regarding to branches from development trees, such as git and svn, Arch has got a special binary repository and a build system comparable to FreeBSD ports. > I think that source distros can have such a system, but they are really > hard to install It depends on the users skills and how much only is available by source, again, that is what I mean with all distros with a huge userbase have advantages and drawbacks. I don't say that to please everybody, it isn't political correctness, it's just an objective fact. > , and for all other distros, I think users... coders, > just sync with the repo of the libs they need, if they need the latest > development package, and then compile the stuff themselves. On Debian, > you have no real choice, since some libs ( sfml or wxwidgets for example > ) does not have the latest version in binaries... Again, to develop huge projects this approach does cause a dependency hell. For e.g. "take a package and replace it's source by a newer version, edit changelog and rules and then run libtoolize --force --copy --automake, aclocal, autoreconf, debuild -b -us -uc" can be done or smaller projects, but even could fail then. Note that many people who are needed, the testers, don't have the skills the developers have got. -- 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/1377607625.724.132.camel@archlinux
