On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> >> Maybe this requirement should be communicated more clearly (e.g. a >> comment in the standard pacman.conf)? > > Great idea. I mean, as a non-[testing] user I get that guinea pig > feeling which comes naturally with linux often enough. Don't miss to > express that [testing] here is far from what other distros label with > "testing" and will hopefully break your system (because we want to > know). Depends on who you compare to, unlike certain other distro's who shall not be named, we actually compile, install and test our packages before pushing to testing. We really don't want any packages in testing to break anyone's system as that will lead to fewer people using it. However, there will obviously be problems from time to time. Personally, I use testing on all my five machines (including for work), and never experienced a big problem (such as loss of data or a failed boot), but your mileage may vary ;-) Cheers, Tom
