On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:34:19 +0900 Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:
> AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> writes: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? > > I think such things are hardly necessary. > > Sid is not a monster, really all that's necessary to avoid the (very > occasional) problems is a bit of sense. The normal mechanisms work very > well. It's not always quite that simple, although it usually is. A year ago, I was hit by this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491114 Here's my tale of woe: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg01704.html Fortunately, Sven Joachim pointed me toward the relevant bug, and I was soon back to normal. I think John Hasler's point (which he often makes) is an excellent one. We Sid users have a psychological need to keep our systems up to date, but there's really no technical reason for that. As long as one keeps track of security issues, there's really no point in compulsively updating, unless one wants to provide the community with the service of bug-finding, i.e. volunteering as guinea pig ;) Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org