Sean: > > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials > > that will break a working slink dist.
dyer: > I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the > new one, _any_ one. It won't upgrade you to the new libc6. (Well, I guess > if you were running bo it would ;-) ) All dependencies can be met with a > slink system. If you don't want any other packages installed from > unstable, just look up dependencies and install them from stable tree. I presume the lazy man's way of doing this would be: download the lyx .deb from potato dpkg -i --force-depends lyx*.deb point dselect at slink and do [S], 2x[Enter], [I], [C] Would that work like I think it would? (More importantly, am I a dangerous maniac with habits like that?) Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.