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Re: Remaining task packages ...



On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:36:46PM -0400, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> 
> > Because skipstone isn't in Debian (yet).
> 
> what? Then how come I was able to apt-get install it? It should be in 
> both testing and unstable (but not stable). That counts...

Er, well how about that.  When I last looked at the situation
it was so.  But no, this flies in the face of that:

synrg@sanctuary:~$ apt-cache showpkg skipstone
Package: skipstone
Versions: 
0.7.1.20010325-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/pandora.debian.org_%7erobot101_mozilla_Packages)
0.7-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.direct.ca_pub_linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)

So it seems that the unofficial packages have now become official.
(Either that our I'm out of my tree, and it was there all along, and
the only issue was that the *latest* skipstone was only available
from http://pandora.debian.org/~robot101/)

OK, I'll have to see then if this can be included.

> Well, just installing konq. itself involves installing kdebase / 
> kdelibs. That isn't that much. But! That is barely functional. You 
> can look at plain HTML pages. If you try to look at a text 
> file...oops, you need KWrite to do that. Want to listen to a sound 
> file? Well, you don't have ARTs installed, so that will fail aswell. 
> It even goes so far that if you want to look at a picture that isn't 
> in a web page, you need to have some KDE image viewing program. Now, 
> if you don't use KDE, this all sucks. But, KParts (if you have all of 
> KDE) does rock. I do think that having something like this rocks. 
> Unfortuanetely, KDE apps take really long to start up (if you aren't 
> running KDE, they need to run kdeinit and stuff). So, maybe including 
> konq. isn't a good idea.

Hm, I see your point.  Well, I'll have to downgrade my skipstone to the
latest Debian sid version and see whether it is suitable, then.

Ben
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