Re: Xemacs & Debian packaging systems
Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote:
> <...>
> > Well I ran Xemacs as root and did some upgrading with it's packaging
> > system and it doesn't appear to have done any harm ;-) Maybe we should
> > just have assumed that apt-get is just too damned good to be thrown by
> > Xemacs' antics!
>
> The only time you should run into a problem doing this sorta thing is
> if: the app managed package contains the same files as a Debian
> package, but they do something different; or you purge the Debian
> package and it takes out something the app installed package needs.
>
Bruce, Many thanks, this was what I needed to hear! Should be all right
with a little care then.
TVM
Glyn
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