Hi there, On Tuesday 09 October 2007 20:19, Martin Ammermüller wrote: > > You can also shoot into your foot if you like. Pulling every package > > from backports instead of just the ones you really need is a pretty bad > > idea. > > Why? * you will lose security support of stable security team * maybe a bad maintained backport will have security holes open for ages * maybe a backport aren't stable enought for productive environment * maybe a backport with change abi(s) * maybe a backport isn't maintained anymore (carefully) > Currently i have 1104 packages installed including 98 packages from > backports.org. That's only nearly 7.8% of all installed packages. I don't > know why i should switch to testing. About 70 of these packages from > backports.org are there because of KDE 3.5.7. I won't pin 70 packages by > hand, switching back and forth between aptitude and editing > /etc/apt/preferences because i have to pin all dependencies, too. I never used pinning in relation with bpo, "aptitude -t [sarge|etch]-backports install <package>" did work absolut perfectly and as expected. Dunno why anybody want to use pinning instead. With kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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