On Don, 2002-09-05 at 21:48, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:50, seb128 wrote: > > I think you will agree with the fact that some packages in experimental > > are not for all users (ie: libpam). > > But how the users upgrade their gnome2 system ? > > Because dist-upgrade don't upgrade gnome2, many of them just use > > 'apt-get dist-upgrade -t experimental' ... and so upgrade their system > > with experimentals packages (and not only gnome2 packages)!
Why don't they apt-get -t experimental install gnome2, as indicated on http://www.hadess.net/idoru.php3, which is linked from http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ ? > If you are that scared about upgrading into packages from experimental i > suggest you do some pinning, or at least default release. man 5 > apt_preferences and man 5 apt.conf might be of some help to you too. I think only pinning is necessary and only for experimental packages, as experimental has a low default priority. I simply select the versions I want in aptitude. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
