[nflug] debian unstable package

[Eric Benoit]

Thanks ...I did it anyway... whew... and it worked, I rarely do this but 
I needed wine for my hp scanner or at least I hope this is going to 
work, I am driving in the dark with no lights :)

David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> 
> --- Eric Benoit <ebenoit at hopevale.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm running debian sarge for my desktop and wanted to configure synaptic 
>>to get wine from sourceforge ..worked great until wine requested that 
>>the libxxf86dga1 be installed, so I did a search and found that it is in 
>>the unstable version of debian, so I configured synaptic to get the 
>>unstable repository, and now I am ready to install it ...when it was 
>>ready to install it said the base-config would be removed and libc6, 
>>libc6-dev, and locales would be upgraded.  My instincts are telling me 
>>that I would be a complete fool to do this, am I correct?
> 
> 
> 
> It's not too wise to do that.  Upgrading the base setup and libc opens up a
> whole range o potential for destruction. (wind of like taking kernel32.dll from
> the new windows beta and trying to replace the one on a win2k box and expecting
> it to work. (well that's not a very good analogy,  but it should show the
> point)
> 
> These problems you have are the main reasons why I abandoned binary packaged
> distributions like debian, and redhat (and all their little cousins and knock
> offs).  On gentoo you can "unmask" a development package and in most cases
> (about 98%) you don't need to unmask anything else to get it to compile and
> install.  If you find that it didn't work,  you uninstall it and take away the
> mask flag that you set. (masking and unmasking  packages or groups of packages
> is done by manipulating entries in files in /etc/portage)  I used  the
> unmasking trick to get gentoo to install the wine version that I wanted.
> (0.9.5)  and it works beautifully..  Gentoo's forums and  documentation is also
> VERY good.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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