What about universe periodic updates?

[Lothar Gesslein]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:40 -0500, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:44:25 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Ricardo Perez
> <ricardoperez at andaluciajunta.es> wrote:
> >
> > With that way, any Warty user can to choose between "universe" packages (non supported, frozen), and "universe-update" packages (non supported, but updated frequently from Sid).
> > 
> > What do you think about that?
> 
> Couldn't there be problems when dependency mismatches occur between
> whats in "universe-update" and whats in "main"?  I know of no examples
> of where this happens off hand, but say program Foo from
> "universe-update" updates to require a newer GTK+ than main provides.

I think there are generally only packages in universe that were build
automaticaly without problems by an build-daemon. so packages with
dependency problems won't be build and not included in universe(-update)
anyways.

i like the idea.
someone who can tell about disadvantages of an universe-update?

Greets, ulmen
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