Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
by war1025 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:42PM
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> would you recommend that over a distribution focused on rolling releases, like Arch?
Everything about Debian except the `stable` repository is explicitly a rolling release.
> Debian strongly advises against mixing repositories
Certainly you wouldn't want to add in the other repositories if you're aiming for Debian Stable type guarantees.
This is the `sources.list` file that I've been using for nearly a decade:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
And then I have a preferences file that prefers testing to unstable to experimental (actually three separate files in the preferences.d directory, but I'd think you could combine them.
It may not be advised, but it works pretty well. Sometimes you have to get a bit creative when you go to run `apt-get dist-upgrade` and it wants to delete half your system, but usually you can just manually install individual upgrades (`apt-get install <x>`) until it unwedges itself.
Everything about Debian except the `stable` repository is explicitly a rolling release.
> Debian strongly advises against mixing repositories
Certainly you wouldn't want to add in the other repositories if you're aiming for Debian Stable type guarantees.
This is the `sources.list` file that I've been using for nearly a decade:
And then I have a preferences file that prefers testing to unstable to experimental (actually three separate files in the preferences.d directory, but I'd think you could combine them. It may not be advised, but it works pretty well. Sometimes you have to get a bit creative when you go to run `apt-get dist-upgrade` and it wants to delete half your system, but usually you can just manually install individual upgrades (`apt-get install <x>`) until it unwedges itself.