Re: Installing Gnome 2.12 with apt-get...
So to summarize your email... "use Ubuntu" :)
--- Luis M <lemsx1@gmail.com> wrote:
> [NOTE: this is not a flame war email. So, please do
> not start one]
>
> Hello,
>
> Remember that experimental needs packages from
> Unstable since this is not a
> self contained "distribution". That means that if
> you are adding
> 'experimental' to your sources.list, you must also
> add 'unstable' and
> perhaps even 'testing'.
>
> Now, not to discourage you but, if you search
> through the list archives you
> will find that for every new version of Gnome, there
> is a plethora of
> problems and the packages for
> testing/experimentating with gnome are never
> "public". After much fuzzing and tinkering with this
> topic, i decided to
> take matters into my own hands... This was also
> discourage by the Gnome Pkg
> maintainers because of other reasons (which i
> understand. mostly bugs that
> could arise later when my own packages clash with
> packages made by them when
> they are made available).
>
> I don't think any of us have time to either package
> gnome by ourselves
> everytime there is a new release of gnome. So, in my
> case, i just switch to
> Ubuntu. I keep a Sarge box around just in case, but
> every other desktop
> system i own is running Ubuntu. And i'm happy i did:
> everything just works
> and I have the latest version of Gnome at my
> disposal. You can't go wrong.
>
> In short you have two choices (or perhaps three if
> you count packaging
> gnome2.12 yourself):
> 1. wait for the gnome 2.12 packages to go to
> 'testing' (Etch) (perhaps 2
> more years)
> 2. use the Ubuntu packages (or the Ubuntu "Breezy"
> distribution)
>
> Number 1 has been the favorite for Debian package
> maintainers for years. It
> does work for them, especially for servers. However,
> some of us think that
> if upstream releases packages as "stable" they are
> stable and we are nobody
> to say they need even more testing. The only thing
> that might need testing
> is the way that the debian packages integrate with
> the rest of the old
> libraries currently in debian -- or those libraries
> used by the desktop
> packages should be updated accordingly as we go
> along using upstream
> "stable" sources. [Yes, this is how "unstable" is
> supposed to work but it
> never really does. Look at how old some packages are
> and the debian
> maintainers refuse publicly to update them. gdm
> comes to mind... i'm sure
> there are others]
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 11/10/05, David BERCOT <david.bercot@wanadoo.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hope I am on the right list...
> > I'd like to install Gnome 2.12 but I have some
> dependencies problems.
> > If I do : apt-get install -t experimental gnome,
> it needs other packages
> > from experimental but, if I'm right, apt does not
> search them in
> > experimental.
> > Do you know if there is a command line which says
> to apt to install
> > gnome from experimental, and, if necessary, others
> packages from the
> > same source ?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> ----)(-----
> Luis M
> System Administrator
> Kiskeyix.org <http://Kiskeyix.org>
>
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