Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote:
> > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's
> > certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody.
>
> that's the stupid part about all this: ximian calls woody "unstable" on
> their spidermonkey server, yet it will, as it seems, only work on a
> stable (potato) system.. tsts..
>
> frank.
The naming problems are a result of history. Before there was a
testing distribution, woody was the same as unstable. That was when
Helix set things up. Probably if they changed things now that would
disrupt the people who have their apt sources set up.
The ximian site says they support potato and woody.
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