Craig Sanders wrote: > IMO, if you need a 'stable' system with some newer packages, you're > better off learning how apt's pinning stuff works than bothering with > backports. it's not hard. The big difference is that with backports, they will be built with stable libs etc. as far as possible -- that means a hell of a lot less gets pulled in than with testing/unstable, no matter how you pin. YMMV etc. Cheers, Nick