On Sunday 19 December 2010 12:39:58 Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:06:51 +0000, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 18 December 2010 18:43:06 Camaleón wrote: > >> Linuxmint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian... so, in the end > >> what you have is a ".deb" file but I would not mix packages from > >> different distributions: it could work or it could give you nothing but > >> headaches :-) > > > > Not necessarily. There is now a version based on Debian instead of > > Ubuntu. Tho' the rest of your comment obviously stands. > > He, he... yes, I know :-)
That doesn't surprise me - your knowledge seems to be encyclopaedic. I very much doubt that there is anything aboyt Linux that I know and you don't. :-) But you may have readers, either now or in the future, who do not know that. > But the OP said plain Linux Mint (not "Linux Mint Debian Edition", in > short "LMDE") and while LMDE is compatible with Debian repositories, the > opposite does not have to be necessarily true (besides, LMDE does not > have yet a 64-bit edition). Yes - I entirely agree, and had in fact said that the rest of what you said would still apply. Indeed, I can think immediately of a case where a distro could and did use Debian repositories, but where the reverse was not true. I would be very wary indeed of trying to install on Debian from any repository that is not explicitly intended for Debian. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012191327.24103.lisi.re...@gmail.com
