Sure, if you add an Ubuntu repository to your apt sources.list, that can definitely cause problems. But if you manually download a single Ubuntu package and install it on Debian, then any problems that package might cause can be fixed by doing "apt-get remove my-ubuntu-package".
.hc On 09/25/2012 03:49 AM, dreamer wrote: > Well, I've seen systems break before when doing this (take an ubuntu > package from launchpad), so I'd really rather not. > Have seen horrible dependency problems result from it (maybe not > immediately, but somewhere down the line). > > So yes, I consider it a really bad idea (bad practice?) and I will never > ever do this :P > > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>wrote: > >> On 09/24/2012 03:46 PM, dreamer wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at >>> wrote: >>> >>>> launchpad only builds packages for the Ubuntu releases, but you could >> use >>>> one of the Ubuntu packages on Debian if you find an Ubuntu release that >> is >>>> close to your Debian release. >>>> >>> That sounds like a really bad idea. I'd rather use an actual Debian >> package. >> I'd also rather use the package built against the same Debian release, >> but its not a bad idea to try to install a package on your Debian >> install when its built on Ubuntu. Worst thing, you'll just have to >> uninstall it. Its not going to install other packages from Ubuntu, only >> from Debian, unless you've configured it to do differentl.y >> >> .hc >> _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list