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Re: apt_preferences setting



On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install.
> 
> But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing.

Packages aren't removed just because they're no longer in the
distribution. They're removed when something else conflicts with them or
their dependencies can no longer be satisfied (although in the latter
case packages are more likely to be simply held back in order to avoid
the removal).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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