On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote:

> while on my quest to bring my powerbook back to where it was before (kde3, 
> etc) i came across 3 different places for new stuff: contrib, cooker, and 
> updates.
> before i start going crazy installing stuff i want to be sure that i'm not 
> gong to kill my computer (again ;). pleas let me know if i am correct in the 
> discriptions of these 3 places.
> contrib: packages not included in 8.2 but will install fine on this system

No longer true once cooker begins.  I haven't done much with contribs yet.
the kde3 stuff that is there should still be safe. I believ Olivier
Thauvin has plans to update contribs with cooker materials.

> cooker: don't even to attemp to install on an 8.2 install because everything 
> is compiled with gcc3

true

> updates: updates to the packages that came with the 8.2 cds
> 

true

Stew Benedict

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