On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > > > Er, mostly. > > > > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not > > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given > > the > > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from > > sid. > > I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing. It may have pulling in some dependencies from Sid, then. I know the official line is to use '-t $something' as arguments to apt- get/aptitude for pulling in packages from Sid/experimental/backports, but I think it is better to use the '$package=$version' format. (After getting the version from something like (apt-cache policy $package).) My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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