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Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems



On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Debian's nice in terms of dependency handling, but this really only
> applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the fact that a lot
> of users run a total mixture, like a stable base, with packages from
> testing and unstable as needed, and start thinking that way?

Because it's a total nightmare to support (i.e. construct consistent
dependency trees for) and doesn't really work properly as it is?

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



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