Re: evolution 1.2

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:19:19AM +0100, Raphael Calvelli wrote:
> Thanks a lot. 
> 
> Now, a question that will look stupid to many, but useful to 5,9 billion
> people that didn't deeply read all the docs ;-) : 
> 
> I have sarge. Can I use sid version of this program, without using sid
> for all the distribution? If yes, how do I install it? 

You can use 

APT::Default-Release "testing";

in your /etc/apt/apt.conf to keep your system mostly
at testing (or stable, if that's where you're at) and
then use apt-get -t to ask for a given distribution
when installing a given package.

But, I suspect a large package like evolution will drag in 
some serious dependencies like the sid-version libc6 and
a host of others; you might want to use -s first to see
what's going to happen.

man apt-get
man apt.conf

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under the bridge, and then they marched over it." 
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