On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: > 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of "stable" > and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it occured to me > that the use of non-Debian packages might equally be discouraged. The > dock appts I'm considering are in most cases non-Debian packages and in > the few instances where they are Debian packages, they're "unstable" or > "stable".
For little trivial things like dockapps, well, I wouldn't care, but it can get messy. If you are going to use pinning and grab stuff from different branches, it is really best to grab the src-deb with apt-build and compile it (well there's no apt-build in woody, so you'll have to compile src-debs manually if using woody). Mostly, like every other linux distro, packages compiled for other distros don't work. Thankfully, debian has almost *everything*. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
