On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:06:58PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
>
> I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now
> at "experimental", probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get
> kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran
> an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and it upgraded a couple hundred
> packages in the pocess.
>
> In the process, printing no longer works. Jobs get spooled, gs starts
Hi David,
Experimental is not a distrabution or release. If your other
packages are mostly testing or unstable, that is what apt and its ilk will
try to use as a referense. If you do not 'hold' the experimental
packages, apt and its ilk will try to 'fix' all those packages by
upgrading them to the 'distribution' you are using (testing, unstable).
This can lead to mixed results as you have found. Experimental packages
are put in a special place for testing cutting edge ideas they may break
other things. If the idea works out, it will most likley be move into
unstable. There it will not break things.
cheers,
kev
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