Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 05:20:35PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > The smartest thing to do - which reminds me on a startrek voyager
> > episode - is doing nothing. It is an **unstable** and **unguaranteed for**
> > portion of Debian. If you want it, you just have to fight with it.
>
> I disagree. If all of the GNOME related Debian developers coordinated
> their efforts and made sure that their packages worked with each
> other before releasing their packages then many of the current library
> version related problems could be avoided. Of course, we would still have
> problems with bugs in GNOME/etc, an inherent part of alpha software, but
> at least we would be able to avoid the current library version problems if
> we coordinated GNOME related package releases.
I'm sorry but I haven't defined what I meant under 'doing nothing'.
I meant doing nothing as in doing nothing to try to have total
control every minute of the unstable distribution's existance.
However, I think you people who want to work on it must *not* be
stopped or held in any way. I just think that in current circumstances,
of new GTK+ every 4-5 days, and new GNOME in about the same time,
total awareness and usability of all related packages (and I mean
*package*, not programs) and at the same time is impossible
to accomplish.
Maybe if there was a tightly knit and skilled group that would
maintain small parts of the current problem, that part would be
reasonably well made. If that part was the core of the problem,
it would resolve a lot. Still, there is no complete solution to
the anarchy around the core.
Mess is inevitable, and we have learned to live with it so far.
Inexperienced users have problems with it, but Debian's position
on the distribution dubbed unstable is defined.
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