On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=experimental
> > Pin-Priority: 1000
>
> Wouldn't it be safer to change this to "Package: *gnome*" (if this is
> the correct syntax). Sure I don't want to have essential or required
> packages to be replaced by versions from experimental.
>
> Furthermore I'm running Woody and don't want to upgrade to Sid
> (mainly due to limited bandwidth). Just a few packages on my system
> are from Sid (mainly Gnome & friends). I assume that adding the above
> line would instantly upgrade the whole system, not?
A few packages will be pulled in from experimental this way such as diff
and pam stuff, but these did not break anything here, and the alternative
was needing to find each Gnome2 package which did not contain gnome in its
name (the various bits of nautilus and esound, for example) and add them
by hand.
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