Debian and Japanese from a Debian Developer

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <che@example.com> writes:

    Ben> I would recommend installing Debian 2.2 (potato) with a very
    Ben> minimal set of packages, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to
    Ben> point to unstable, and run apt-get update; apt-get
    Ben> dist-upgrade .

Don't.  You'll be sorry.  Use "testing" or "frozen", whatever it's
called nowadays (or "woody", which is the fixed tag).

    Ben> This will (hopefully, hoping unstable isn't living up to its
    Ben> moniker) 

It's not called "sid" for nothing.  Maintainers tend to be relatively
careless about dependencies in unstable, and the packages come out so
rapidly that if there's a last minute bug in a required package, you
can go days or weeks (it took over 4 months to upgrade elk, an
embeddable Lisp interpreter) with the unsatisfied dependency while
they're fixing it.

Debian unstable is not particularly unstable most of the time.  But
it's often enough that you don't want to deal with it until your
system is running and you understand it pretty well, and you
understand the Debian package management system.

-- 
University of Tsukuba                Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences       Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091
_________________  _________________  _________________  _________________
What are those straight lines for?  "XEmacs rules."