Re: [E-devel] E/Etcher/Efsd Compile problems

[Paul D. <pa...@pa...>]

* Carsten Haitzler (ra...@ra...) wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:13:15 -0700 Michael Jennings <me...@en...>
> babbled profusely:
>=20
> > On Monday, 06 August 2001, at 15:04:44 (-0400),
> > Hall Stevenson wrote:
> >=20
> > > You will be soon enough... Do you still use Redhat or VA Linux's
> > > modified version of Redhat ?? They, and therefore you, will
> > > "upgrade" to autoconf-2.5 in due time.
> >=20
> > Of course we will.  When it works.
> >=20
> > See, that's the beauty of running a distribution that actually goes
> > through a Q/A cycle.  I love not having to choose between Debian
> > stable (read: "ancient") and Debian unstable (read: "broken").
>=20
> which is debains major fault. debain woudl be a VERY good
> distribution.. If they did releases more often so your dist wasn't
> stable and ancient, or unstable and up to date... it'd be great. i do
> hope they do this to remove peoples reliance on unstable.

If unstable automatically updated packages without user intervention (it
doesn't), _and_ you couldn't manually hold packages back (you can, see
the --set-selections option in the dpkg man page), _and_ you couldn't
specifically allow newer versions of packages in stable (you can), _and_
you couldn't install from source in unstable or stable (you can, see the
see the "source" command in the apt-get man page), _and_ there wasn't an
interim Debian version between stable and unstable (there is; it's
called testing, aka "woody"), then what you're claim about "peoples
(sic) reliance on unstable" might be true.

Why are you are making wild assertions about a package management system
and distribution which you are obviously unfamiliar with?

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