on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:19:23PM +0100, David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2001 4:41 pm, Vittorio wrote: > > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > > testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it > > requires to download some more new-updated libs and many files for xfree86 > > 4.1. > > I'm running a mix of Potato and Woody including Gimp 1.2.1 and all is > well. Kernel 2.4.9 and X4.1 Personally I'd upgrade X first and be > sure that is all sorted first then install Gimp. Take things one step > at a time and you will at least know at what stage things went wrong > should they do so. > > That said I generally grab source code and compile it myself after > manually checking the Build depends in ..debian/control. So far so > good.
This may be saving you much grief. > I'd like a Debian guru to tell me and others why mixing distros is so > dangerous. Is it just because of the changes in dependances? Am I > safe by being careful of deps myself? Debian is (in large part) about resolving dependencies. By mixing distros, you're utterly fuxnoring the dependencies situation. I've had pretty good luck running a Woody (testing) system and grabbing the odd package from Sid (unstable), but the delta is generally small: ten days, plus bugs. When I say odd package, I mean just that -- currenlty I've got Galeon and mozilla-browser from Sid as neither was in Woody when I installed this system (two days ago). As Woody catches up, I'll make up the slack. I'm surprised you're having as much luck as it seems with your Potato/Woody mix -- that's approaching 14 months of branched development. My advice: pick a release track (stable, testing, unstable) and stick with it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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