Re: Debian Weekly News - June 27th, 2000
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:14:53PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>> Well at work we added one line to /etc/apt/sources.list which pointed to
>> helixcode and no problems so far (however saying that there was a conflict
>> between gnome-panel and one of their packages (gnome-applets??)).
>
>Namespace conflicts (package names, files within the file system)
>are bound to occur with multiple .deb sources. As I said, quality
>control will suffer. In most cases, those .deb sources won't even
>care about packaging quality I'd guess.
Not to mention making it harder for Debian proper to be self-contained;
there've already been cases of packages accidentally depending on Helix
versions of GNOME libraries.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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