Hi there! I'm a new Debian user after using RedHat, lfs and my own small (and thus very incomplete) distro. I'm especially happy with the great packaging system and the large number of packages which can easily be installed using dselect. At first, dselect was a bit disorienting, but it handles dependencies nicely. However, I'm using the stable branch and I am happy with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem. But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrade 244 packages, install 26 and remove 34 and leave 3 not upgraded. I don't like that. If I want to upgrade to unstable, I'll let dselect (or apt-get) know. Now, I only want to install avifile-player and its dependencies without upgrading my whole system. If it needs the new libc6, I'm happy to install that too. But not a whole bunch of other things just to let me keep kword, for example. I couldn't get apt-get to work either, it does a better job not wanting to upgrade my whole system, but it will happily remove all of koffice for me.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks! David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]