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.
