On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Ста Деюс <sthu.d...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > Hi. > > > Is it possible to compile/install a testing version of a package w/ its > dependencies on a stable OS installation? -- I mean, if a have stable > installation of whole the system, can i compile and install a testing > version of single package and the packages this single package depends > on? >
I run mixed stable and testing packages, and it seems to work very well. The issues I have had had made me consider switching to entirely testing (~amd64) because a lot of issues are actually incompatibilities between stable and testing packages. There are some people in the IRC channel on Freenode who will recommend the same thing. Building on what Rich said, most people will help you get unstable packages working, but every now and then you will run into an issue that requires bugfixes by the original package developers. Often in this case the only solution available is waiting. Sometimes someone will be able to help you patch the code if the problem has already been solved but there hasn't been a release. (Sometimes Gentoo contributors will create entirely new patches, but that is the exception.) R0b0t1.
