Re: kde package installation???
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:15:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Jordan Haddow wrote:
> > > Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable) and everything has been
> > > going fine, until I tried to install KDE. For some reason the KDE packages
> > > are all messed up. They are either all different versions or, as in some
> > > cases, missing altogether. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Welcome to unstable ... dependencies are sometimes broken there. Make
> > sure appropriate bugs are filed (http://bugs.debian.org/).
>
> :-) In the old days the map maker would not know what geography lay in
> certain places of the map and would just say "there be dragons there"
> as a warning. Unstable is one of those places. Unstable is "today's
> build" and is the development area for the next release. KDE needs to
> simmer on the stove there a little longer before it will be ready to
> serve. Remember that they are cooking for 11 architectures!
Sadly, in the case of KDE right now, that's a poor excuse. The main
reason why KDE 3 is not in testing, for instance, is that its
release-critical bugs simply aren't being fixed, and, looking at for
example kdebase's current list, most of them apply to all architectures.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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