On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 13:05 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:49:22PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > >I recommend you use the third-party deb-multimedia repository for those > > >packages. I have them both installed from that repo and I've never had > > >any problems. In fact, that repo has never given me any problems. Of > > >course I'd prefer if I could get everything I want from Debian's main > > >repo, but currently that's not possible for me. > > > > I was rather reluctant to use a repo relying on only one man, but for the > > moment that seems easier than trying to compile every missing program. > > Do you have a preference file to set the priorities of debian / > > deb-multimedia repos? And if yes, what is its content? > > > I've reported bugs in packaging to Christian on the mailing list, and > he's fixed them in 1 or 2 days. I guess he never goes on vacation... > > I don't use any pinning for deb-multimedia. I suppose if you wanted you > could pin it to 200 if you wanted to prevent apt from "updating" > packages in debian main with packages from deb-multimedia. There are a > couple of packages that exist in both repos,
There seems to be a lots of packages in both repos, deb-multimedia has its own version of loads of the AV libraries and it uses a higher epoch in the version number to force them to be preferred over the official libraries. Basically, without using pinning to stop apt pulling in deb-multimedia packages you will get quite a few unofficial packages. (On my fairly minimal LXDE install 19 packages would be 'upgraded' if I deleted my pinning - which is to the following in /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: origin www.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 100 -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359918267.3456.9.ca...@computer5.home