[plug] Evolution from source

[James Devenish]

In message <1070860677.22969.1047.camel at latte.internal.itmaze.com.au>
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:17:57PM +1100, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:01, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > [1] Actually it's not - I'd probably end up installing the deb from
> > unstable and hoping nothing breaks... :-)
> 
> As in, download the .deb, dpkg -i and if it wants something else, keep
> loading more?

I think Cameron is suggesting that if you let APT do it, it will want to
bring everything *else* up to unstable, too (as part of dependency
resolution). You have a lot of options for getting a square peg to fit
in the round hole, but they sound complicated when described in writing.