kde4.4 in updates-testing

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Feb 17 23:30:24 UTC 2010


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.

I'd suggest using the kde-testing repository instead. It also gets builds 
sooner than updates-testing.

        Kevin Kofler



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