[PlanetCCRMA] Java question

[Mark Knecht]

On 01 Mar 2005 17:52:29 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:19, Mark Knecht wrote:

> > Granted, it hasn't stopped me in the most benign cases, like unrar or
> > something like that, but Java is a pretty major component that links
> > itself in to so many places and I haven't been quite bold enough to do
> > that on my own.
> >
> > You think the DAG repository is safe?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> That does not mean you should do a "dist-upgrade" including dag. Not
> that that would be a problem but here's what I normally do: enable the
> extra repositories that I know have the stuff I need, apt-get install
> only the stuff I need (and any dependencies), disable the extra
> repositories.
> 
> > I think it would be a great user contribution for a number of folks to
> > come up with a standard, tested and presumably safe way to add other
> > repositories so that we aren't all doing different things. (Just my 2
> > cents...)
> 

Thanks. Now if I can just remember to turn them back off. That's what
worries me.

Cheers,
Mark