Re: package trees

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Nelson wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing "bitch" by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I s

Re: package trees

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Nelson wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Or, if you intend to ensure that a package and all of its dependencies are "stable enough" before you will use it, then you're just reinventing the testing distribution. Then again, I did say that this was probably a really bad idea...

Re: package trees

2002-12-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:35:54AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of > not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. I do not think you will be ejected but you may be chewed :) > There has been a long standing "bitch" by some th

Re: package trees

2002-12-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not > understanding how Debian works, but here goes. > > There has been a long standing "bitch" by some that Debian is so vary > slow to update their base system. Personally I stand entirely

package trees

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing "bitch" by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I stand entirely behind the philosophies of making stable really