25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
3:56 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
Say I want to try package X, but instead I download pkgs X, Y and Z from testing. Now my scripts which rely on /proc/.../BAT0/* fail because pkg Y is a new kernel, /dev/cdrom is gone since pkg Z is udev. And all I wanted is to try out new qemu-kvm...
IMHO saying that testing is for experienced people is misleading since "experienced" is a vague term; such statements only repell users. A useful guideline would be "think three times before you type and understand how package management works".
Cherry-picking might work, but we are not even trying to make sure it does, so it would be by coincidence. -t