From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:26:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oauftttc.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140915160031.19d405d4@bother.homenet> (Chris Vine's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:00:31 +0100")
Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> But quite honestly, if you want to experiment with newer software don't
> use an archaic distribution such as debian stable, which is out of date
> even when first released.
Umm, I think it's quite reasonable to run a distribution of older
software that has gone through a long testing period and works well
together, and then to compile more recent versions of selected packages
of particular interest.
In my experience, every time I've run a more cutting-edge distro, I
inevitably end up hitting bugs in software I don't care about when I'm
just trying to get something else done, leaving me less time to work on
the packages I choose to focus on. YMMV, of course.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-15 11:46 guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 15:00 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-16 16:26 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
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2014-09-16 11:09 Federico Beffa
2014-09-16 13:13 ` Federico Beffa
2014-09-16 18:16 ` David Pirotte
2014-09-15 16:46 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 17:33 ` David Pirotte
2014-09-14 15:42 Federico Beffa
2014-09-14 23:07 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-15 7:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-14 15:37 Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 1:16 ` mhw
2014-09-15 9:49 ` Neil Jerram
2014-09-15 10:22 ` Federico Beffa
2014-09-15 10:44 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-15 14:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-09-15 10:27 ` Chris Vine
2014-09-14 8:02 Federico Beffa
2014-09-13 12:52 Federico Beffa
2014-09-14 1:17 ` Vernon Oberholzer
2014-09-14 14:32 ` Neil Jerram
2014-09-14 14:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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