kde4.4 in updates-testing

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 18:55:17 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:35 -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But you did say "It can then be hard to back out to *not* using 
> updates-testing for every future update."

I did say that (and I still need convincing that it can never happen
even theoretically) but it doesn't seem likely in practice.

> I don't understand the logic there. If you use updates-testing to get 
> the kde packages from updates-testing and then stop using 
> updates-testing, eventually the updates you got from updates-testing 
> make it to updates. From that point on you are back to the same state 
> you would have been by just using updates.

If you go back over the thread you'll see I also said that.

poc



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