I tried to install emacs-nox from unstable with aptitude. Now it is pulling all of unstable, a dozen packages at a time. How do I revert to stable? And is there a way to just get emacs-nox from unstable (or testing) with a minimum number of dependencies, leaving the bulk of the packages at stable?
TIA, Jeffrey Quoting Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pinning is roughly equivalent to 'apt-get install > randompackage/unstable'. Neither will try to pull in unstable > dependencies, but will instead just fail if the package can't be > installed with testing dependencies. 'apt-get -t unstable install > randompackage' is probably the worst command to use since it will pull > unstable dependencies for uninstalled packages even for unversioned > dependencies. Pinning has essentially been useless for the past 2 > months, but for the 10 months before that I thought that pinning *was* > useful so it seems disingenuous to claim that it is always useless. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
