On 10 Jun 2001, Glyn Millington wrote: <...> > Well I ran Xemacs as root and did some upgrading with it's packaging > system and it doesn't appear to have done any harm ;-) Maybe we should > just have assumed that apt-get is just too damned good to be thrown by > Xemacs' antics!
The only time you should run into a problem doing this sorta thing is if: the app managed package contains the same files as a Debian package, but they do something different; or you purge the Debian package and it takes out something the app installed package needs. - Bruce