Hello, I'm not a debian user, but I have a question regarding the 'testing' and 'unstable' branches. Are the packages there dynamically linked against the latest versions of other packages? For example if I install today the current snapshot of
the 'testing' branch. Then for 2 months I don't update (download) any packages. Then I find out vim 6.1 is out. In the meantime newer versions of glibc (say 2.2.5) and perl (say 5.602) were released. Assuming vim (gvim) is dynamically linked against glibc and perl (though it doesn't need their latest version), will apt-get must download the newer versions of glibc and perl. Obviously for applications (say gnome 2 when it is released) requires newer libraries (gtk2) I understand the neccessaty, but in the previous example (vim) the downloading of the 20Mb+ files is not necessary. Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com
