José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes: > Alex Hudson wrote: >> available to you. On Debian, for example, I have: >> >> deb ftp://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib >> >> So, I'm pulling from a UK mirror of Debian, and I'm getting stuff out of >> the 'sid' directory (I don't know if I'm using the correct terms here - > > Hi Alex, > since you claim to use Sid, could you comment on the "safety" > of it at present? I used to use sid for quite a while, but with glibc, > gcc, perl and python changes, I decided to move to testing, in case it > all went up in flames... I use sid. It hasn't gone up in flames on me in months. OTOH, it's worth keepping a fire extinguisher handy, just in case. Stuff does break. Only once has my entire system been unusable (when some bad PAM packages got uploaded a year and a half ago), but I've had to do some troubleshooting to figure out work-arounds for bugs in one package or another every once in a while. Uusually they're fixed relatively quickly... -- Eric E. Moore
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