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Re: Get in Trouble Now



"Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote:
>> arief_mulya <arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id> writes:
>> 
>> > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font
>> > become very ugly.
>> 
>> The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm
>> is there at all.  (Not entirely sure why, though.)  There are a few
>> bugs against the gdm package already requesting gdm2 (147637, 155638,
>> 169226).
>
> I've heard a couple times that the reason that gdm2 is not in Sid is
> that it doesn't as yet build on all platforms. Remember, to be available
> in the pools, a package generally needs to be available for all
> platforms Debian supports - that is why some packages are available in
> unofficial ports - not all platforms are available there.

Not true.  There are some packages that are architecture-specific, like
plex86 or yaboot for example.

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