Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonke
On 07-Dec-2000 Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:08:54 Ethan Benson wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
>> > 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).
>>
>> yes i installed helix on one debian potato box. the helix packages
>> are very very poorly made, i am NOT going to install helix packages
>> ever again, instead i think upgrading to woody would be a better
>> choice. when you upgrade to woody you get current gnome packages
>> which negates the need for helix.
>
> Strange, I haven't had any of these probs on my potato. OTOH, I had
> never installed /any/ potato gnome packages, only Helix. Maybe that's
> got something to do with it? I'm very satisfied with the quality oh
> Helix's debs
>
>
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>
I too haven't found any problems with Helix on Potato...and I had Gnome
packages from Potato installed before too! A friend of mine has the same type
of setup and has experienced no problems with Helix. So call that too votes
towards saying that Helix and Spidermonkey are of high quality on Potato.
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