The libraries can be installed simultaneously, so you'll always be able to run gnome 1 and gnome 2 apps. The desktop environments are contradictory, says upstream. It will probabbly never be possible to have both installed at the same time. Individual applications are being considered on a case-by-case basis it appears. In particular, unstable's "sawfish" and "gnome-terminal" packages are now gnome2 versions. There is currently quite a debate over whether or not other gnome2 packages will begin to replace gnome1 packages in unstable, particularly as many gnome2 packages are not backwards compatible, and in many cases have dropped features people may be familiar with. The discussion is happening on the debian-gnome-gtk mailing list, which is open for anyone to read and post to. Please check the archives on lists.debian.org first tho, to make sure your particular comments haven't been addressed satisfactorilly yet. On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:06, Robert Rati wrote: > I have noticed that atleast some of the Gnome2 packages have made their > way into the sid repository, but some seem to have conflicts with Gnome1 > packages. Can Gnome2 and Gnome1 co-exist happily on a sid system with > the current debs in the repository? For example, nautilus2 conflicts > (and provides) nautilus which is fine I think. There are other packages > (GTK2 vs. GTK1 libraries) that flat out conflict. Will the Gnome2 > versions replace the Gnome1 versions alright? Is there any trickery > that needs to be done to get Gnome and Gnome2 on the same system? TIA. > > Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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