Jaime, I've started a thread on this list on a very similar subject (re:mixture of potato & testing). People have strongly discouraged me of mixing the different version of debian.
Vittorio Jaime cristerna Avila [debian-user] <27/09/01 14:46 -0700>: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote: > > ..... > > > There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search > > the list archives. > > ..... > > > Thank you Jason for your reply. I considered your suggestion but was > not pleased with it. If I choose to do it this way, it means that I would > have to rely on unofficial packages and Apt/dselect wouldn't have access > to updates or bug fixes provided by the debian distributions. What if I > wanted to add another package other than X that is not in "stable" but > found in "testing" or "unstable" and leave the other "stable" packages as > is in my installation. So far, it seems like there is no mechanism with > debian to do this. Am I wrong? I hope so. > > Your replies would be greatly appreciated. > Sincerely, > > > Jaime Avila > University of Southern California > Department of Chemistry > > > ##### > ####### , , > # # # D e b i a n / \ > #" #" # L i n u x ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) > ##vvvvv## Rules! `-_---' `---_-' > ## vvv ## `--|o` 'o|--' > # ## \ ` / > ## ## ): :( > ### ### :o_o: > +++##### ##++ "-" > ++++++# #++++++ GNU's Not Unix! > +++++++# #+++++++ > +++++#######+++++ > +++ +++ > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
