debian dependecy hell

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:45:05PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> I forced all of them after reading on the incompatibility issues.
>> Unconfortable ? If my mail headers in the next emails will be different
>> (from another machine) then you'll know I am unconfortable.
>>
>> debian was supposed to be easy ? Give me slackware any day or night.
>
> Debian stable IS easy.  testing is harder, and unstable is often hard.
> Mixing versions is very very hard unless you understand how to deal with
> mixing versions and using the apt pinning system properly.

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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