> [NOTE: this is not a flame war email. So, please do not start one] No problemo ;-)
> 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'. Of course my sources.list contains testing, unstable and experimental ! > 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 consider Gnome 2.12 packages as beta (or alpha ;-)) ones and, if I have too many problems, I will re-install my pc !!! I am a MS beta tester for years, so... > 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) And unstable distribution ? May be less than 2 years, no ? > 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, Thank you for your answer... David. > 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 > > "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]
