On 19 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > I'm running a mostly "hamm" system at the moment, with only a few > non-critical packages taken from "slink". I'm tempted to go > all-"slink" sometime soon, and upgrade my base stuff to the latest of > everything. Can I do this simply by switching off the "hold" > instructions on everything and letting apt-get do its funky stuff, or > are there hidden dependencies it's worth handling by hand? Any > special benefits to this change, besides dselect looking happier?
Should be OK, but: xscreensaver-gl depends on Mesag3, which didn't exist last time I looked, so keep that on hold. Furthermore, a new set of X packages are in slink, but these may not be entirely stable, so you may want to hold those as well... HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
