On Son, 2003-01-26 at 01:37, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 04:27:09PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > Those not wanting to pull libc/unstable etc. should probably just > > recompile from source, which becomes ever easier with apt-src and > > apt-build. > > Actually, this is often a nightmare. After following a huge long trail > of versioned build-deps (all of which also need to be built), you'll likely > come across one which requires a new unstable version of debhelper, which > in turn will require po-debconf and a whole bunch of other stuff which > you won't be able to build for stable (a new python is often in there, which > will require new tk, tcl, tix...). I see what you mean. For *some* simple pkgs, it works. You wouldn't want to use this with any of the more complicated packages, gnome2 or such things come to mind, I agree. cheers -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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