On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:51:10AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree with those who've mentioned /usr/local. Trying to mix testing > > and unstable is likely to be confusing, particularly if you're new to > > Debian. > > like what curse happen? > Show me some cases if you don't mind. > though I've been using mixture of testing and unstable, > I've never met any disastar... yet.
Let's take an example from the C++ transition, when C++ library packages were rebuilt and got a "c102" suffix added to their name. Since the library name itself stayed the same, the old and new packages had to conflict. Say a group of packages depends on libfoo1 in testing, but libfoo1c102 in unstable. If you try to install any of those from unstable then a bunch of other packages will get removed, and particularly if you're new to Debian you won't know why. The perl 5.6 -> 5.8 transition was similar but worse. Python transitions, same deal, and so on, and so forth. If something is stalled in unstable for a long time it's often because it will cause problems if you try to install it on a testing system. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
