Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by marcosdumay on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:02PM
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Both have the goal of to make it easy to get newer software, or software from other sources, within the same management interface, and without breaking all the other packages of the distro. But transactional packaging systems does get to those goals, while PPAs just maybe get there, for a time, but always turn-out breaking something.
But if you are using PPAs to create different lists of released software, so you can keep you stable software while everybody else wants to move to something newer, transactional packaging does not have that goal. Although it makes the job of maintaining such PPA much easier.
Re:Debian elects new project leader, PPA support proposed
by organsnyder on Monday April 20, 2015 @02:03PM
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> But if you are using PPAs to create different lists of released software
Isn't that pretty much the whole point of package repos in the first place?
A transactional packaging system would definitely ease the pain of running newer software, but I don't want to take the time to try it—I'd rather stick with the release cycles provided by the distro as a whole. In this situation, PPAs are great for when I want to install software that isn't in the official repos (or is at an older version).