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Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports



On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 06:00 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu January 14 2010, Zhan wrote:
> > For me, I have set backports with the highest priorities, so anything at
> > backports.org with a higher version number will be automatically installed.
> 
> I've never used backports. What packages are there that you use/need/want that 
> is newer/better than what you get out of Lenny??

I use pidgin and transmission from backports on my lenny install. In the
case of pidgin, the msn protocol has changed recently and broke the
version in lenny (just where msn is concerned).

Backports has come in handy for me a few times in the past.


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