Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

[Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com>]

On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote:
> Anyone else seeing this?

	Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey,
	but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there anybody else
	besides me that is a bit annoyed with the fact that many of
	Helixcode's packages are not well polished?

	The problem that I'm referring to is that a lot of packages
	seem to have duplicate files, that is, there are some packages
	that try to overwrite other package's files.

	I just tried installing Helixcode's Gnome on a brand new
	potato installation and I've received loads and loads of
	warnings from apt/dpkg about this problem. Unfortunately, the
	only packages that I can remember having this problem are
	libgnomeprint* (and, more precisely, the i18n files).

	Are there other people seeing this problem or is it a problem
	with me? (Of course, if it is indeed a problem with HC's
	packages, then the solution would be to split the packages to
	avoid them doing wrong things).

	That is, BTW, one of the reasons why I'm getting more and more
	interested in KDE in Debian than Gnome. The other two reasons
	are KOffice and Konqueror (which isn't perfect, but is,
	without a doubt, one of the better browsers today available
	for Linux).

	And Ivan has made some great packages for potato, BTW.


	[]s, Roger...

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