On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:06 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates, Devs:
I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid.
Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box to testing. If you only want to kick the tires on one package from testing, then probably best to only install that.
One of the things I like about Arch is how it keeps me on the cutting edge with very up-to-date versions of all the packages, but still manages to keep my system very stable. IMO, if you bump everything up to testing, you're going to lose a lot of that wonderful stability.
DR
Using testing to -Syu your system every day, you should be a frequent reader of arch-dev-public, simple as that. Anything in testing could be broken, that's why it's testing. We abuse testing for testing out packages, but also for big todo tasks. I use testing on my system to do a pacman -Syu daily, but when the readline rebuilds started to enter testing, I decided to wait a bit before upgrading.