[plug] Sid

[Adrian Woodley]

Matt Kemner wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Adrian Woodley wrote:
>
>>G'Day,
>>         Whats everyone's opinion on Debian Sid? Is it worth taking the
>>plunge and using it on my desktop?
>>
>
>That depends on how well you know the Debian package system.
>Things are still likely to be broken, but I have yet to come across a
>problem I couldn't fix with judicious use of dpkg, and the occasional
>edit of /var/lib/dpkg/info/<packagename>.postinst
>
>>My biggest concern is my slow
>>connection and the refresh rate of the packages - ie lots to download
>>and not much to do it with.
>>
>
>I run sid at home, and my connection to the 'net is a 33.6k modem... I
>don't keep it up-to-date on a daily basis though, I only tend to install
>packages when I want the latest version of something, or a bug has been
>reported on debian-security-announce. Then I just apt-get install that
>package, and let apt install whatever else it needs. If a whole bunch of
>libs have been upgraded in the meantime and the download is going to be
>tens of megabytes, I let it d/l overnight.
>
>The -d flag tells apt to download only, not install, so if you are
>uncertain about the stability of what you are about to install, you can
>let it download overnight, and then babysit the install the next day.
>
> - Matt
>
>
Cheers for the comment on the '-d' flag :)