natirips wrote:
Whatever you do with Debian, DO NOT MIX REPOSITORIES OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS!
It may sometimes sound like a good idea to pull just one or two packages from another version, but it's just about the stupidest thing you can possibly do with Debian.
I've done this since years with no real troubles.
You just need your pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, and then
everything should be fine.
And in case you urgently need a package which pulls in too
many (important, like libc) unstable/experimental dependencies,
you can still install a downloaded static version in /opt or
/usr/local.
natirips wrote:
(I had this bad experience when I only wanted to use Mumble from (then experimental, now stable) squeeze on my otherwise (then stable, now oldstable) lenny. It ended up with breaking almost everything repository-related.)
Wow, what a desastrous result with only one package. :-/
You do know that you can tell aptitude to either pull in deps
from your default repo:
Code:
aptitude <somepackage>/experimental
(which is the preferred way, as it's more unlikely to break things)
as well as tell it to pull them in from another flavor:
Code:
aptitude -t experimental <somepackage>
right?