also sprach Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> [2006.06.23.1557 +0200]:
> * if any other package depends on a higher version of a package which
> is not satisfiable on sarge, but on sarge-backports.
This is what I am talking about. In this case I'd want to give
explicit permission, not just let APT take something from
backports.org that I didn't previously "authorise" for installation.
Otherwise people may fall prey to errors like I just did: installed
/etc/apt/preferences to /etc/preferences with FAI and consequently
had to reinstall all our cluster machines, because I surely don't
want *all* backported packages to replace the sarge packages.
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