Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:32:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Patrick Lane wrote:
>
> > Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to
> > if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86
> > 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to
> > start, which to me is way worse.
>
> Hmm. Admittedly, the X packages are complex and numerous, but even so, is
> it really not possible to install unstable X packages on testing?
It's most certainly possible. Pinning _is_ your friend. It's quite
easy to pull select packages from another version and to set a default
release to follow. If you really wanted, you could install "stable" and
pull various packages from "testing", "unstable", or even
"experimental".
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Jamin W. Collins
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