Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

[Jaime cristerna Avila <avila@chem1.usc.edu>]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote:

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> There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato.  Perhaps search
> the list archives.

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Thank you Jason for your reply.  I considered your suggestion but was 
not pleased with it.  If I choose to do it this way, it means that I would
have to rely on unofficial packages and Apt/dselect wouldn't have access 
to updates or bug fixes provided by the debian distributions.  What if I
wanted to add another package other than X that is not in "stable" but
found in "testing" or "unstable" and leave the other "stable" packages as
is in my installation.  So far, it seems like there is no mechanism with
debian to do this.  Am I wrong?  I hope so.

Your replies would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,


Jaime Avila
University of Southern California
Department of Chemistry


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