Red Carpet ?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> The number one advantage of red carpet is the use of channels.  This
> means you can actively browse a channel for software and just install
> the one package from there plus it's dependencies, but it doesn't lock
> you into that channel for the future.
> 
> In practice this means that, for example, I could have gotten the latest
> gaim rpm from updates-testing without having to chain my whole system to
> testing.
> 
> I understand apt allows something called pinning but I have never had
> the courage to configure it :) red-carpet makes stuff like this dead
> easy.

If you don't mind using a GUI then you can to some extent do this with 
newer versions of synaptic without trying to comprehend apt_preferences 
man page for an hour and recovering from the resulting headache for the 
next two :)

	- Panu -