Philipp Thomas wrote:
js
[Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:08:11 +0200]:
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I absolutely never discourage using the easy way because "No pain, no gain" is a great motto in the gym, but it sucks when you're trying to get your work done.
I doubt that you really *need* the newer version of a given package to get your work done. I guess many of those wanting to update are version junkies like I myself once was.
In the years at SUSE, where I work with Linux all day, I have had only a very few cases where I definitely needed a newer version of a given package because of additional features the newer package offered.
Philipp
I couldn't agree more Philipp. In the case I mentioned before with Samba, it was indeed for a new feature that I needed the upgrade. Ditto with perl, transcode, xvid, codec upgrades I had to do a while ago. I wanted to use the latest PerlDVD:rip because they added lots of new features. Unfortunately, I had to upgrade around a hundred packages (seems so anyway). Aside from those cases, I keep what works. It's a shame how many people break their systems trying to stay on the bleeding edge. Although I must admit I was right there with them 5 or 6 years ago. I learned the hard way, but I did learn. ;) John S.