[Techtalk] package hell

[Maria McKinley]

Hello,

Since there is no actual xemacs in lenny (debian testing), I tried to 
compile xemacs myself, and have now have a half-working xemacs. I would 
like to uninstall the package, but I'm really not sure how to do this. 
The xemacs site claims that there is a pkginfo/MANIFEST.pkgname file 
that has a list of all of the files, but I don't have that. I think that 
must be for pre-compiled packages. Assuming that I get it removed, I 
would also like to know the best way to deal with the lack of xemacs. 
I'm getting the feeling that I should edit sources.list to allow stable 
packages, and download xemacs from stable, but I am a little nervous 
about having both enabled. How does the package manager know which 
distribution to get which files from?

thanks,
maria