Originally posted by dungeon
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I'm not necessarily faulting sid here, but the point of that repo is to offer the latest release regardless of whether it actually works or should be used. Arch's devs have sometimes done same-day updates for new releases, sometimes they hold things back for over a month. For being a cutting-edge rolling release distro, they're pretty damn good at making things stable, or at least they make it relatively easy to recover from problems. Sometimes I tried a few packages in Arch's testing repo (which is basically the same idea as Debian Sid), where I was waiting for a package to be released that other distros already have. More often than not, I've regretted using the testing repo. If I were using Sid in these situations, I'd have a much harder time reverting the changes.
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