kde4.4 in updates-testing

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 13:25:15 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:32 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
> 2010/2/18 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> 1) using "... update kde*" will also pull in any dependencies that KDE
> >> needs from updates-testing, so you don't need anything else.
> >
> > Not necessarily, sometimes it misses some stuff.
> >
> >> 2) not restricting yourself to kde* (and its dependencies) increases the
> >> risk of a flaky system because you're updating a bunch of stuff you
> >> don't care about. It can then be hard to back out to *not* using
> >> updates-testing for every future update.
> >
> > But this is true.
> 
> Quite interesting. What's true there? The risk of a flaky system?
> Yeah, that can happen. But that happens as well with updates from
> updates repo.

Please re-read my original reply. I said it *increases* the risk of a
flaky system. Kevin appears to agree.

> And you think it's true that you cant back out and stop using
> updates-testing because you used it once?

Ditto. I didn't say that either.

poc



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