*-devel ports

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Tue Feb 5 06:38:34 PST 2008


On 2008-02-05 13:57:30 +0100, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
> Then we would have to warn new users about -latest not being so stable
> because intuitively I would like the latest version to be installed
> but what retains me the the previous one is that "it just works". For
> the sake of stability I would have -unstable marked clearly, so that
> the users dont expect too much magic with -latest.

On the other hand, the development version is sometimes less buggy
than the stable version. This is the case of mutt, zsh and lynx
(for which there have been recommendations to use the development
versions).

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