Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> dave mallery wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> >
> > so getting them is not the problem, as they are there!
>
> That's why I use dselect over apt. None of the front-ends are up to
> part. Neither is dselect, but I figured out a pattern for using it where
> it doesn't sneak *so many* bizarro dependencies.
if that pattern is not too complicated, could you outline it??
>
> > maybe i should wait for a woody cdrom and start over....
unless i can unstick dselect and friends, i will have to start over...
without a ximian in sources.list
>
> Won't help you. I'm running woody here. But I'm using debian's Gnome
> packages exclusively. It's when you mix Ximian in that things become
> weird. And that was true back when I used RedHat 7.2, also. Their ideas
> of what goes into a package is different than RH's, different from the
> Debian packagers.
i tried it back in r/h 7.1 and found i could no longer upgrade it via
krud, as i did monthly. so much for ximian then.
>
> Whenever something shitty happened to the X server or friends, I somehow
> tracked it back to what they've done. Good software; bad packagers.
>
> Hells smells, I'm using the Gnome stuff from Woody! It's going to be odd
> though when they convert over to Gnome 2. Had an argument with the
> maintainer
> about the use of /opt for kde and gnome. They're religiously against it.
> A mistake;
> I don't want 800 files hanging out in /usr/bin, when 600 of 'em are
> gnome2 and kde3...
>
well, at least huge disks are cheap! i use a 3gb /usr.
thanks again
dave
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