On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:45:22AM +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old > system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with > testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was > doing. > > Now since I'm running a fresh and "clean" Lenny install I'm here > to ask what is the correct way to handle packages from the testing > branch, in case I want to use a newer version of some software (namely > xfce in this specific case). > > Do I have to do a full dist-upgrade or can I just mix packages from > stable and testing branches?
If you are asking this question, I should say "DO NOT MIX" although it probably work most of time for now until testing get more newer libraries. For reason, please read: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#basicprecautions > Any input appreciated, thanks. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
