What about universe periodic updates?

Tom von Schwerdtner tomvons at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 12:40:19 CST 2004


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:44:25 +0100 (GMT+01:00), Ricardo Perez
<ricardoperez at andaluciajunta.es> wrote:
>
> With that way, any Warty user can to choose between "universe" packages (non supported, frozen), and "universe-update" packages (non supported, but updated frequently from Sid).
> 
> What do you think about that?

Couldn't there be problems when dependency mismatches occur between
whats in "universe-update" and whats in "main"?  I know of no examples
of where this happens off hand, but say program Foo from
"universe-update" updates to require a newer GTK+ than main provides.

Regards,
Tom

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