Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
: Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to
: update some files from the "unstable" tree?
Depends on what "bad" means to you:
o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of
dependencies for you, so there should be no problem.
o It may break severely since you're using "unstable" (has the name for
a reason :)
In truth, Debian "unstable" is quite stable. That doesn't mean things
won't (or don't) break.
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