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Re: gdselect alpha 3 [libapt]



On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I mean, what if I screw up a loop and deinstall all my essential
> packages... :-)

Never ever try to install things! I don't run my test code as root ;>
  
> Yeah it can be a fun time... Slink already has everything you need that
> doesn't come in Gnome CVS though - assuming you have the disk space to
> install it. ;-) It's really just a matter of installing the packages, then
> typing ./autogen.sh; make; make install in each directory, with the major
> caveat that everything has to be working in CVS that day.

Well remember at some point this has to be useable by Joe Average debian
user. At some point you have to stop following CVS gnome and only use
released gnome features.

Jason


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