Re: state of "prerelease" packages?

Richard Cook writes: > So would it be a nightmare for me to choose the prerelease packages > under the Packages menu? Any advantage/disadvantage to that? Norbert is acting like he plans to release a new sumo soon. All the prerelease packages will be promoted at that time, so there is no stability downside that we know about. IIRC, the package lists are *not* merged. If so, I think the best procedure is start by updating from the released package list to get anything promoted to released status since the last sumo, then switch to prerelease to get the most recent packages. In most cases, there is very little downside to using the prereleased packages.