Hi Chris I use Plasma etc. stuf from Experimental and plan to use it along the way, until it arrives in Sid, testing, etc. The default on my machines is testing, I install stuf from Experimental only based on my interests, KDE being one of them, so non-KDE packages are installed from testing or sid if needed.
I install latest-and-greatest of Frameworks and Plasma, as they ought to go together, just following the upstream releases. I am very satisfied with de KDE packages in Debian as they are available after a couple of days of the upstream release. This allows me to follow and interact with the upstream communications on KDE while using a stable Debian environment. I cannot thank the team enough for this! Regards, Luc Op za 1 mei 2021 om 16:22 schreef inkbottle <inkbottle...@gmail.com>: > On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:03:32 PM CEST Luc Castermans wrote: > > My computer just pulled KDE Frameworks 5.81.0 from Experimental. > > I've myself switched to "Plasma 5.21.4". Like, not planing to go back. > It allows me to use kwin-wayland by fixing: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404092 > > I answer here because it seems the first post in that line. > > I'd be happy to hear about: > > How did you manage to install the binaries related to the source package, > but > only those that you need. Sort of. > > I've myself be guided to the line: > > `apt install -t experimental $(dpkg -l | grep 5.20.5 | awk '/^ii/ {print > $2}')` > > And about pinning experimental with a low priority... > > And also: > > Do you feel that "Plasma 5.21.4" is working better when with "Frameworks > 5.81.0"? > > Or that, if I'm satisfied with Plasma-5.21.4, I shouldn't bother with > Framework-5.81.0? > > (Satisfied here is more a question of "how much" than of "yes or no". > Certainly > there are plenty of things that are not performing the way they should. > But > the feeling is that Wayland is more stable, more robust, faster: better in > every way that really matter. And no, the bells and whistles are not there > yet. And plenty of small things are crashing, but the desktop itself seems > dependable. And if something is not working with Wayland, you can expect > there'll be a fix someday.) > > Anyway: > > How do you manage installs and upgrades related to Experimental Framework > and > Plasma? > > What is you level of satisfaction about it? > > Are you planing to keep on using them, until they come to unstable in a > distant future? > > I don't suppose you are usually using experimental as your regular debian > source? > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > > > -- Luc Castermans mailto:luc.casterm...@gmail.com
