> > This one's a quickie. Seems to me that if I want to replace a package > I've already installed with the distro (slink) with my own build of the > source, I should just be able to remove (w/o purging configs) the package > using dselect/dpkg and then go ahead and install my own build. > > Is there any possibility for hosing myself with this method? For example, > right now I want to replace my Enlightenment 0.15 with the 0.16 source. > I'm expecting to be able to just remove the old package and install the > new one by hand. Nothing wrong with this, right? I've done this before > with some smaller packages but never with anything as significant as a > window manager. > > TIA.
Not sure about WM, but I do this with AfterStep about every time new devel version comes out. And it works perfectly. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org <--All the pages bundled together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
