On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:58:54PM +0200, seb wrote: > > Many people don't use GNOME, so why force them to wait for Galeon when > > they could be using the latest Mozilla? > So why not make a special package of mozilla for galeon ? Go right ahead. The rest of us already have plenty of work to do in preparing the packages we *currently* provide, without getting involved with coordinating two copies of mozilla in the archive. > > One of those bits of knowledge is > > that dist-upgrade removes packages, and in fact the basic purpose of > > dist-upgrade is to remove packages. If they don't want it removed, they > > should either run upgrade, or manually check dependencies, or heck, even > > *read* the dist-upgrade information before they hit enter. > Yes. Users read this informations, but if they want dist-upgrade they > have to spend time to solve that. But you don't want dist-upgrade, you just think you do because you don't understand the purpose of dist-upgrade. Even if you /usually/ want dist-upgrade, the fact that you object to galeon's removal from your system shows that in this case you really do not. > dist-upgrade removes packages yes, but much of the time it is because > packages are not used any more. In this case galeon, that is used by many > people, is not in the sid any more in fact ... people could not > install it during the days before galeon's package update. And no one has made any guarantees that unstable will be a distribution fit for installation at all times. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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