Re: firefox instability may be fixed now in HEAD

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I think that when I last upgraded all my packages, it was to Q1. For me, a 
> package upgrade is a big event, because I don't have much free time, and I 
> have to see if the upgrade broke anything (I frequently find that I have to 
> symlink libraries, because the upgrade doesn't replace libraries that have 
> the same version number but are now linked against newer other libraries). 

I *highly* recommend a jail or a simple chroot for this,
if you're not using such a procedure already.

Makes updates *much* less disruptive -
as you can test new packages / fix any problems before "going live" -
similarly, you can keep the old copy around in case of problems..

only downside is the disk space.. but these days -
not so much of an issue in most cases

cheers
- Chris