debian dependecy hell

[Anton Markov]

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The APT HOWTO contains an entire section on pinning:
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin>

Basically, pinning means telling APT you want a specific version (or
other criteria) of a package. It will modify apt-get's version choosing
process, so you can keep using some old, and some new packages (as long
as there are no dependency conflicts, of course).

Peter L. Peres wrote:
> Ah, pinning. I have seen this term in the documentation before. What is
> pinning, exactly ? I take it that it sets priority for packages and then
> the packaging system chooses packages with higher priority when it has
> choices. No ? The documentation I have seen so far is severely lacking
> in terminology description. A glossary added to the apt-howto would be a
> good start imho.
>
> Thatnk you for your answers, it is very useful,
>
> Peter
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