[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Mon Jun 22 16:05:29 EDT 2009


On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am 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


Thanks DR,

	I think I will work my way back out of [testing] while leaving dmraid 
1.0.15rc intact.

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