extra apt sources, backports etc.

["A. Loonstra" <arnaud@nospam.sphaero.org>]

Hi,

I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 
backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list

# XFree 4.2
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
# Gnome 2.2
deb 
ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woo
dy gnome2.2/
deb-src 
ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports
/woody gnome2.2/

Installation went fine but I ran into som problems when aptitude 
suddenly wanted to remove a lot of packages. I managed to fix that but 
aptitude didn't automaticly fix broken dependencies and I had to do that 
by hand. Kernel 2.6-test2 came out and I thought let's try this. But I 
had to install gcc and suddenly had different version installed; gcc 
(2.95) gcc-3.0-base gcc-3.3-base. The kernel doesn't want to compile 
telling me lots of includes are missing (fixdep.c). I'm having apt 
horrors, I guess, and am thinking of reinstalling the whole systems (I 
hate it when it's out of control)

My question remains what's the best way to manage unofficial backports 
without having much trouble. I how do others do this?

Arnaud.