[TriLUG] Debian Sid/Unstable

[bak]

I was more saying: why go to jessie for VLC when you can just grab it out of wheezy-backports?

This has been an interesting conversation. I like stable just fine, and if I need something super new (not often) I’ll just get it from an external repo, backports, or build from source and use checkinstall. I still have some stuff running etch. :)

—bak


On Mar 1, 2014, at 16:48, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> Are you asking what is backports?  If so link explains it best:
> 
> http://backports.debian.org/
> 
> Basically a repo for bringing some newer packages from testing into stable
> without switching fully over to testing.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:45 PM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:
> 
>> Backports? :)
>> 
>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 14:09, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 02/28/2014 09:49 AM, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>>> And the only software the latest and greatest
>>>> absolutely matters is the music software and at that just certain
>> specific
>>>> items.
>>> 
>>> VLC is older than dirt with Wheezy, which is why i went through all the
>> hoops to get Jessie. And, it wasn't easy. Ric
>>> 
>>> 
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