Hi, this has probably been discussed hundreds of times before, and everyone is tired of the arguments by now, but I thought I might be able to contribute something, for people who want to use Sid, but stay with KDE 3.5
My personal preference, is to run Debian Sid on my personal PCs, but not KDE 4.2. I like having cutting-edge versions of most programs, but not KDE 4.2 (unstable & crashy, and too many missing features that I use daily in 3.5). I researched pinning, but that looked like a real pain, for dozens of packages (just pinning kdelibs5 doesn't work for me, aptitude still goes mad). My solution, for keeping my machine on the latest Sid, except for KDE, which stays on testing (for the moment), is to run a command like this: sudo aptitude dist-upgrade $(cat dist_upgrade_vers.txt) Where dist_upgrade_vers.txt contains lines like this: akregator/testing amor/testing ark/testing arts/testing ... I generated that text file, by running and re-running 'aptitude dist-upgrade', and then adding <packagename>/testing (for KDE-related packages), until aptitude finally reported that it was going to upgrade everything to Sid, except for KDE packages. This is basically a very ad-hoc, manual version of pinning, but it works better for me in the current situation. This probably isn't an ideal solution (KDE 3.5 will probably eventually start breaking due to newer libs and so on), but for the moment it seems to be working correctly, and I will probably need to keep tweaking the text file as needed (and maybe even downgrade my entire system to Lenny at some point). But, hopefully it will work until KDE 4 reaches a point where I'm happy to switch over (maybe by 4.5). David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
