Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

[Derek Broughton]

Scott wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 
>> I always had the same problems, intermittently, with Sid - the unstable
>> branches will have periods where they're not internally consistent, but
>> they're not usually a big deal as long as you don't just blithely use
>> "dist-upgrade" without checking for consequences.
> 
> I gave etch a try a few weeks back which was missing scads-o-packages.
> I found said packages in Sid.  So, I was using packages from both.  It
> became dependency hell (even with pinning).
> 
> From my personal experience, I've found that Ubuntu has some packages I
> like/want that Debian doesn't and Debian has some packages I like/want
> that Ubuntu doesn't.
> 
> It's a no-win situation.

otoh, I'd call that a win-win situation.  I run Ubuntu Dapper (for the
latest KDE) but pin Debian unstable for Tomcat and related packages, and
Debian Experimental for Mambo.

Generally I find pinning to _create_ dependency hell, and restrict it to
permitting only specifically named packages.

I can run Dapper to get the latest of just about everything, and anything
else is available _somewhere_.
-- 
derek