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Re: Question about snort binaries..



On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:20:10PM -0800, Anne Carasik wrote:
> apt-get -t unstable install snort
> apt-get -t unstable install ssh
> etc.
> 
> So far, I haven't had any problems :)

The potential for trouble is there, though.  If at some point in the
future unstable's snort depends on perl 5.8, but perl 5.8 isn't yet in
testing, you'll end up pulling in the unstable perl to your testing
distribution and introducing far more changes than you bargained for.

OK, that's not the best example, since neither ssh nor snort actually
depend on perl...  But s/perl/glibc/ or libpcap or libsnmp4.2 or
whatever.  There's plenty of potential to get yourself into trouble.

noah

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