Package pinning is driving my crazy. Every now and then I just have to have something that is only available in testing or unstable. My favorite option is to download the source, compile it myself and install in /usr/local but every now and then it's a big thing like evolution which has a gazillion dependencies.
So I do apt-get -t unstable <package> Almost without exemption this will lead to hairy dependency problems. Here's what I'd like to do instead. I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under /stable, testing packs goes under /testing and so on. Sure this will waste a lot of disk space, because libc6 and a lot of other core packs will be in three places. But what do I care. Disk space is a lot cheaper than my time. Anyway to hack this? alex -- Alex Polite http://plusseven.com/gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
