Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Lu, 03 sep 12, 16:22:25, lee wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, how do I find out which packages from Debian-MM are actually
>> installed and what their Debian-MM-team replacements are?
>
>     aptitude search ~S~i~OMultimedia
>
> Will show you which packages you have from deb-multimedia.org.

Cool :) That lists 58 packages, not all of which are available in
Debian.

> However, the Debian replacements only differ in version and because
> dmo packages are using epochs apt will treat them as downgrades :(

When they are only different in version, then what is bad about having
packages from Debian-multimedia, and why should I remove them?

> I used aptitude's interactive mode to force installation of the debian 
> version and then pinned dmo to 100 to prevent automatic installations 
> from it, but still allow upgrades of installed packages (same as 
> backports).
>
> You can also replace the 'search' above with 'purge' (or 'remove'), 
> remove dmo from sources.list (or pin it to 100) and then install the 
> packages you need. This time they will be pulled from Debian 
> repositories.

And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian?


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