[linux-audio-user] Installing Demudi packages on Debian

[robin]

Brent Busby wrote:
> It's occured to me that installing the kernel from Demudi stable on
> Debian might be a nice easy way to get all my kernel tweaks without even
> needing to recompile.  And thanks to the way the kernel and the userland 
> in Linux are so relatively version independant of one another (something 
> not so true on other UNIX flavors), that should be quite safe, too.
> 
> It made me wonder though -- since Demudi is built from Debian, what
> would be the issues with inporting lots of other packages useful to
> musicians as well, while still keeping the system essentially Debian?
> 
> Do a lot ("a lot" meaning a destabilizing amount) of non-music-related
> packages from Debian get superceded by Demudi versions when you add the
> Demudi Apt repositories to the sources.list of a sarge machine?  Are any
> of you currently doing something like that?  Just wondering...  I'm sure
> that even as there have been many MIDI and recording apps in sarge that
> surely would not have gotten there without Demudi, there are probably
> still others that either never made it or have newer versions in Demudi
> than what sarge gives you.
> 
> I just don't want to make my system unmaintainable by mixing
> distributions like that on a really massive scale though...  Once you
> get newer versions of really critical things, it can be almost like
> committing yourself to running sid/unstable -- no easy way back.
> 

Demudi version 1.2.1 is based on Sarge so it should be ok bearing in
mind the following:

The only packages, I think, to avoid are demudi and cdd if you don't 
want to change your Sarge setup.

Keep an eye on any messages from synaptic or apt-get whichever you use.

robin