Re: Moving from hamm to slink
On 19 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote:
> I'm running a mostly "hamm" system at the moment, with only a few
> non-critical packages taken from "slink". I'm tempted to go
> all-"slink" sometime soon, and upgrade my base stuff to the latest of
> everything. Can I do this simply by switching off the "hold"
> instructions on everything and letting apt-get do its funky stuff, or
> are there hidden dependencies it's worth handling by hand? Any
> special benefits to this change, besides dselect looking happier?
Should be OK, but: xscreensaver-gl depends on Mesag3, which didn't exist
last time I looked, so keep that on hold. Furthermore, a new set of X
packages are in slink, but these may not be entirely stable, so you may
want to hold those as well...
HTH,
Matthew
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