[Hudlug] A gentoo question

[Tim Bray]

Mark Anderson wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
> 
>> The point of Debian Sid is that it is broken.  It is a bit messed up 
>> because they have put loads of new things in.
> 
> 
> Yeah I'm usually mellow about that. I was just rethinking my approach as 
> I had a lot of stuff break at the same time.
> 

A good compromise is to run a testing system, and then use package 
pinning to hold some broken packages back at staple and the packages 
where you want to latest stuff from sid.

The downside of this is that security updates introduced into Sid don't 
tend to filter through to testing until a while after they are released. 
  There has been a big thread about this on one of the debian 
maillinglists in the last few days.

Tim