On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 02:35:48 -0600, Boyd wrote in message <201011070235.48667....@iguanasuicide.net>:
> In <20101106225444.0fb26...@a45.fmb.no>, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message > ><87lj57y4x3....@thumper.dhh.gt.org>: > >> Arnt Karlsen writes: > >> > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite live > >> > up to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these > >> > PR'y buzzwords. ;o) > >> > >> Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to > >> be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental > >> packages. > > > >..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and, > >Chuck Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o) > > Because not every package has a version in experimental. It is > structured like backports, packages are only added as needed. This > means that there may be times when either there there is no version > of essential packages (think libc or dpkg) in experimental or that > version is actually older than the version in unstable/Sid. > > Just like backports, it is meant to be an addition to some other > complete version of Debian. Backports is usually mixed with stable. > Experimental is usually mixed with unstable/Sid. > > While I don't recommend it, you certainly *could* install Sid and > then pull in every package from experimental that had a version in > experimental. That would be roughly equivalent to flying an > experimental plane. ..correct, and rejecting all bit's that needs more hammering to fit until they do fit, then fly and see what happens. ;o) > What you can't do is install experimental. That would be roughly > equivalent trying to get airborne with just a set of experimental > wings and control services but no fuselage or instruments. ..yup, works quite well since 1903. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- 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/20101108011639.558d7...@a45.fmb.no