On Lu, 09 iun 14, 13:19:33, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote: > > I also have played with pinning in the past. I must admit, I agree with you, > it not a very good solution, since you need to progressively add every > dependency of the tool you want to upgrade, or automatical upgrades will > fail. On my minimalist computers, it's not a problem, but with a big DE, I > guess it must be painful. > Note that apt* are able to freeze packages, which, combined with pinning > give a real control on versions. Pinning is a very powerful mechanism, but quite often misunderstood and misused. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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