So to summarize your email... "use Ubuntu" :) --- Luis M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [NOTE: this is not a flame war email. So, please do > not start one] > > Hello, > > Remember that experimental needs packages from > Unstable since this is not a > self contained "distribution". That means that if > you are adding > 'experimental' to your sources.list, you must also > add 'unstable' and > perhaps even 'testing'. > > Now, not to discourage you but, if you search > through the list archives you > will find that for every new version of Gnome, there > is a plethora of > problems and the packages for > testing/experimentating with gnome are never > "public". After much fuzzing and tinkering with this > topic, i decided to > take matters into my own hands... This was also > discourage by the Gnome Pkg > maintainers because of other reasons (which i > understand. mostly bugs that > could arise later when my own packages clash with > packages made by them when > they are made available). > > I don't think any of us have time to either package > gnome by ourselves > everytime there is a new release of gnome. So, in my > case, i just switch to > Ubuntu. I keep a Sarge box around just in case, but > every other desktop > system i own is running Ubuntu. And i'm happy i did: > everything just works > and I have the latest version of Gnome at my > disposal. You can't go wrong. > > In short you have two choices (or perhaps three if > you count packaging > gnome2.12 yourself): > 1. wait for the gnome 2.12 packages to go to > 'testing' (Etch) (perhaps 2 > more years) > 2. use the Ubuntu packages (or the Ubuntu "Breezy" > distribution) > > Number 1 has been the favorite for Debian package > maintainers for years. It > does work for them, especially for servers. However, > some of us think that > if upstream releases packages as "stable" they are > stable and we are nobody > to say they need even more testing. The only thing > that might need testing > is the way that the debian packages integrate with > the rest of the old > libraries currently in debian -- or those libraries > used by the desktop > packages should be updated accordingly as we go > along using upstream > "stable" sources. [Yes, this is how "unstable" is > supposed to work but it > never really does. Look at how old some packages are > and the debian > maintainers refuse publicly to update them. gdm > comes to mind... i'm sure > there are others] > > Cheers, > > On 11/10/05, David BERCOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I hope I am on the right list... > > I'd like to install Gnome 2.12 but I have some > dependencies problems. > > If I do : apt-get install -t experimental gnome, > it needs other packages > > from experimental but, if I'm right, apt does not > search them in > > experimental. > > Do you know if there is a command line which says > to apt to install > > gnome from experimental, and, if necessary, others > packages from the > > same source ? > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > David. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > ----)(----- > Luis M > System Administrator > Kiskeyix.org <http://Kiskeyix.org> > > "We think basically you watch television to turn > your brain off, and you > work on your computer when you want to turn your > brain on" -- Steve Jobs in > an interview for MacWorld Magazine 2004-Feb > > No .doc: > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
