Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions
On Monday 20 May 2013 12:34:55 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Andrei is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful of the people on this
> > list. He is also very experienced.
> >
> > You appear to be relatively new to
> > Debian.
>
> Ahem, no, I am not new to debian.
Sorry. :-( Mea culpa.
> But I am no coder (coding is something,
> which is no fun for me). really, I am using debian now since sarge, on
> desktops and on servers as well. And when things are not clear for me or
> not satisfactory documentated, I ask the list. In my social and personal
> area is no one, who I can ask and learn from. I am alone!
:-(
> > If you disagree with Andrei, it is a safe bet that it is Andrei
> > who is right. You ought to look at where you are mistaken, not tell
> > Andrei that he is wrong.
>
> No no, I do / did not disagree with you. If it looks like this way, it was
> not intended by me. Again, please excuse, if it looked like that.
Oh, disagree with me all you like - but be cautious about disagreeing with
Andrei!
> > You have clearly misunderstood what backports are and how backports
> > operate. So I repeat: packages from backports, and ONLY packages from
> > backports, are updated from backports.
>
> Yes, you are right. This thing I really misunderstood. I imagined, to add
> backports to the sources.list would automatically replace packages from
> stable with packages from backports (here clamav for example comes in my
> mind, where every virus database update requires a new clamav binary).
>
> I see, I was wrong.
I can see why you might have though that. The name is confusing.
See:
http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
Note especially:
<quote>
It is therefore recommended to only select single backported packages that fit
your needs, and not use all available backports.
</quote>
Lisi
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