<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>More for upgrades than downgrades. For example (from my own
<br>experiences this morning) Pidgin just released a new version. Now, I<br>don't particularly want an entirely "unstable" system, but for a few<br>packages like Pidgin, I'd like the latest and greatest. I want my
<br>system to get the minimum set of upgrades necessary to do the new<br>stuff, with a minimum of disruption for everything else. Principle of<br>least surprise and all that.<br></blockquote></div><br>That's a tricky question. I'm gonna use the Ubuntu example here.
<br><br>User has Ubuntu Gutsy installed, and wants to install Pidgin from Hardy.<br>However, new Pidgin also pulls in a lot of libraries which broke ABI, and<br>is perhaps even compiled with never libc which gets system in trouble.
<br><br>Anyway, Tom, are you ever on IRC? Me and Michael and probably gonna do<br>some work today again, and I think we'll get another contributor for apt backend ;)<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Mario<br>