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



Jaime, 

I've started a thread on this list on a very similar subject
(re:mixture of potato & testing). People have strongly
discouraged me of mixing the different version of debian.

Vittorio
  
Jaime cristerna Avila [debian-user] <27/09/01 14:46 -0700>:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote:
> 
> .....
> 
> > There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato.  Perhaps search
> > the list archives.
> 
> .....
> 
> 
> 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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