Mark Panen wrote at 2011-09-25 06:31 -0500: > Some packages i want to install on my Squeeze machine just don't have > the right dependencies or packages, so i take what i need from > testing. Am i going to bork my installation?
Perhaps, but probably not (according to my experience). Use packages from backports instead, if available. I mix stable/testing/unstable often with very little trouble. But I am careful about what packages I upgrade, and my system is always either "mostly stable" or "mostly testing". Generally, stand-alone packages can be upgraded without any trouble, but core packages should be left alone. The more reverse dependencies a package has, the more careful you should be about upgrading it.
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