[pacman-dev] pacman.conf possible changes

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 17:21:08 EST 2006


2006/12/9, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > Shouldn't [unstable] be before community, current and extra by default? ;-/
> >
> People might get a bit too eager and uncomment the repo and run a
> pacman -Syu, only to be on the forums five minutes later asking why
> something doesn't work right. If you leave it below, they will have to
> either purposely install something from unstable (e.g. by a 'pacman -S
> unstable/nvidia') or read up enough to realize that if they prefer
> packages from unstable, they will need to move the repo up in the
> list. I personally have testing and unstable uncommented but below
> current and extra, so I can pick what packages I want to install from
> these repositories and not be left with an unusable machine.

Ah, I've forgot about these issues. You are right.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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