[Techtalk] dealing with debian (mozilla) (and Opera)

[Mary]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> If I comment out stable with # apt-get update will ignore the commented
> out lines...won't it?

Yes it will ignore them.

> I've also installed Opera with the following line in my sources list (and
> the corresponding update and install).
> 
> # Opera browser
> deb http://www.opera.com/debian stable opera
> 
> As far as I can tell there's no "unstable" for opera.

I don't use Opera, but many non-Debian apt repositories (like this one,
there's a lot listed at http://apt-get.org/ if you want non-standard
packages) don't provide unstable, because they'd need to rebuild it
every time that a dependency changes.

-Mary