On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38:33PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Unfortunately Alpha disappears from Debian testing just before we get > a working Xserver...
That has been the most frustrating aspect of this whole journey. Xserver has been broken in "testing" for over a month and a half. I assure you, it's not my love of following rabbits down holes that's motivating me to (a) figure out how Debian package names map to upstream source tarball names; (b) unravel conflicting binary package contents; (c) resolve build dependencies by building *those* packages from source; etc., etc., ad nauseum. I don't dare build and install any of the Xorg code outside of the Debian framework: too many components end up in unexpected places because a simple "--prefix=/usr" ought to be sufficient but isn't. I'm *reasonably* certain the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming train :-/. The above rant is my curious way of acknowledging the hard work Debian developers do to make things "just work." I'm *extremely* grateful that I don't normally have to deal with the minutiae that are part and parcel of their lives as developers. How they maintain their sanity is beyond me. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
