How stable is hoary, really?

[Myles Green]

On Wed, 2004-08-12 at 15:54 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:52 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> 
> > I do a lot of word processing, and the latest OOo version fixes a lot
> > of bugs (warty is two versions behind this).  I am thinking of
> > installing to /opt/openoffice via the OOo install script, but should I
> > remove the installed OOo first?
> 
> It is better to download OOo from hoary, you can use selective packages
> from hoary with warty.

I'm new to Ubuntu (and Debian in general), could you please explain how
one would do what you suggest without pulling down the whole "universe"
at the same time?

TIA,

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net>