To quote "Rainer Mager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # David (and all), # # Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with pacages # in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is # encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to # build/install by hand X, glibc, postgres, the kernel, gcc, freeamp, and # others because of needing bleeding edge versions that fix bugs or because, # in debugging the current version, I needed a non-stripped binary. # Although the automatic installation abilities of apt sound nice, I find # that I usually want to actually download the, in my case, RPM so that I can # use it on multiple machines. That is, I question the benefit of this for me. # # Anyway, I wall continue to explore this and, once again, thanks for the # info.
Well, unless you need CVS stuff, there's the unstable variant of Debian, Sid. Heck, it even has some CVS stuff :) For a while, KDE2 was from CVS... Anyways, there are plenty of bleeding-edge packages in Sid. Woody is supposed to be more "tame" than Sid, and Potato is really meant for servers, where things *can't* change out from underneath you. It sounds like you have the requisite skills to run a Sid system, so I'd suggest it. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)