Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I want to > check out something that is only in Potato, I go and use apt-get to grab > and install it. If it uses glibc2.1, it'll get that, and any other libs > that it depends on.
Yup. > Being `binary compatible', does this mean that all the apps that I don't > update will still work (with maybe some `rare exceptions')? Yes. I have a mostly-slink-but-partly-potato box and it's just fine. > Or do I need > to do a dist-upgrade, and upgrade all of my apps to make sure they will > still work? I'd recommend against this, due to a few broken packages that are in the current potato. -- Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
