On Thu,14.Jan.10, 05:35:25, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 06:00 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu January 14 2010, Zhan wrote: > > > For me, I have set backports with the highest priorities, so anything at > > > backports.org with a higher version number will be automatically > > > installed. > > > > I've never used backports. What packages are there that you use/need/want > > that > > is newer/better than what you get out of Lenny?? > > I use pidgin and transmission from backports on my lenny install. In the > case of pidgin, the msn protocol has changed recently and broke the > version in lenny (just where msn is concerned). Yahoo! too :(
I also install wicd and flashplugin-nonfree from backports as they don't even exist in lenny/stable. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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