On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:25:46AM +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Some applications are simply missing and compile (and run) > seemingly without problems from Debian sources. One such > example that I have found is povray. Why is this so?
povray is in non-free; it is very much possible that there simply is no non-free autobuilder for kfreebsd. > I currently do not have a good idea of all that is missing > as I am hardly using this machine for the moment > (at least until konsole gets fixed, as I find it awkward > to revert to using xterm...). urxvt ftw! > I remain optimistic, but find the Debian announcement > to be just a little premature. I went through a similar > (thankfully short-lived) experience during the introduction > of KDE4. Note that unstable is a development system; it is not unexpected that things break there every once in a while. As long as they are fixed before the release (and with the freeze, that is very much doable), I don't think there's anything wrong with that. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
