Re: Helix debian packages
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:34:15AM -0200, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:26:27PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > True, but compared to Helix Gnome, Debian Gnome usually falls short. I've
> > seen bugs reported and fixed the same day with Helix. I recently switched
> > back to Debian Gnome for testing and building some Gnome software on a
> > clean system (which was a PITA still, but only a minor one..)
>
> The problem with the Helix packages is that they do not have
> the same quality when it comes to dependencies and such. I've been using
> Helix for some time and many times I've seen nasty things being done
> to dependencies. -dev packages that installed without the library
> packages, packages with conflicting files... Sometimes I thought I
> should uninstall everything and reinstall debian's but I didn t have
> the time and I feel from what I've seen done to dependencies that
> this would require quite some time.
Please, if you see such problems then submit bug reports. I don't know
of any issues like this, and I can't fix things unless I know about
them.
Peter
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