[nflug] debian unstable package

[David J. Andruczyk]

--- Eric Benoit <ebenoit at hopevale.com> wrote:

> I'm running debian sarge for my desktop and wanted to configure synaptic 
> to get wine from sourceforge ..worked great until wine requested that 
> the libxxf86dga1 be installed, so I did a search and found that it is in 
> the unstable version of debian, so I configured synaptic to get the 
> unstable repository, and now I am ready to install it ...when it was 
> ready to install it said the base-config would be removed and libc6, 
> libc6-dev, and locales would be upgraded.  My instincts are telling me 
> that I would be a complete fool to do this, am I correct?


It's not too wise to do that.  Upgrading the base setup and libc opens up a
whole range o potential for destruction. (wind of like taking kernel32.dll from
the new windows beta and trying to replace the one on a win2k box and expecting
it to work. (well that's not a very good analogy,  but it should show the
point)

These problems you have are the main reasons why I abandoned binary packaged
distributions like debian, and redhat (and all their little cousins and knock
offs).  On gentoo you can "unmask" a development package and in most cases
(about 98%) you don't need to unmask anything else to get it to compile and
install.  If you find that it didn't work,  you uninstall it and take away the
mask flag that you set. (masking and unmasking  packages or groups of packages
is done by manipulating entries in files in /etc/portage)  I used  the
unmasking trick to get gentoo to install the wine version that I wanted.
(0.9.5)  and it works beautifully..  Gentoo's forums and  documentation is also
VERY good.






Dave J. Andruczyk

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