Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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, Many thanks, this was what I needed to hear! Should be all right with a little care then. TVM Glyn -- so here we are then.... http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk ==== Running Debian/Gnu Linux ==== 9:15pm up 7:49, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.16, 0.09