Re: Broken Packages Dependencies

2007-05-19 Thread Thilo Six
Alec Wright wrote the following on 19.05.2007 12:10: Is anyone else having these problems in gutsy: http://pastebin.ca/496576 Should I file a bug report? Broken dependencies are quite usual in development releases. e.g. package A gets updated and now has new dependencies (higher versions or

Re: Broken Packages Dependencies

2007-05-19 Thread Thilo Six
Alec Wright wrote the following on 19.05.2007 12:46: Since developers only can work serial on packages these things get usually (from my experience) sorted out in a short days. I've been getting these messages for weeks now, so I'll file a bug report. $ aptitude update $ aptitude install

Re: Broken Packages Dependencies

2007-05-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:39:21PM +0200, Thilo Six wrote: Alec Wright wrote the following on 19.05.2007 12:10: Is anyone else having these problems in gutsy: http://pastebin.ca/496576 Should I file a bug report? Broken dependencies are quite usual in development releases. e.g. package

Re: ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

2007-05-19 Thread Matthew Larsen
Readyboost is a good idea in theory, but in practice I believe there could be a few problems. The hot-pluggable nature means you would have to keep a copy of the key's contents synched with the HD / RAM anyway. The contents would also need to be encrypted in case of theft. From the reviews I have

Draining the font swamp

2007-05-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
There has been some confusion and dissatisfaction over the treatment of fonts in Ubuntu for a some time now, and no common understanding of how to improve the situation. I spent a little time thinking about this today, and would like to present some questions whose answers I hope will help us to