Should I add this Repo?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 15:23:03 UTC 2008


2008/10/26 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 14:22 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/kmplayer
>
> Mixing Debian packages with Ubuntu is a very bad idea, as has been
> discussed on the list and elsewhere many, many times. Ubuntu is based on
> Debian, but it is NOT binary-compatible.
>

Mixing Debian REPOS is a very bad idea, but Debian packages, so long
as they install, are fine so far as I understand. I will do some
archive digging, and I am not a system admin, but if you could point
me to an explanation why individual packages might be bad then I would
like to learn. Thanks.

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