Question about package dependencies, package versions and distro releases
Severin Schoepke
severin.schoepke at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 14:04:41 UTC 2007
Hi Peter,
thanks alot for the detailed explanations!
Peter Garrett schrieb:
>> Now to my questions:
>> - Is this 'bad' (using packages from another distro)?
>>
>
> generally yes
>
>
> [snip]
>
So I think I won't mess with this kind of stuff again... I like my
system to be 'clean' :-)
> You were lucky :) You can look at "pinning" if you are interested in
> pusuing this - for example
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin
>
> You can also install the apt howto with apt ;)
>
Thanks for the hint regarding apt-howto ;-)
cheers, Severin
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