Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:04:11PM -0600, David J. Kanter was heard to state: > I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating > essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So, > when I look at packages "for Slink" or "for Potato," which one am I supposed > to choose? For instance, the October Gnome. Should I avoid the Slink version?
This is exactly what I have done. I pointed apt at the unstable branch, downloaded glibc2.1, and then have downloaded additional things from there. Not everything works perfectly every time - I haven't got gdm working since I installed it earlier today, but generally most things work fine. I'm working on a slow migration path to potato, so I'm slowly upgrading stuff to potato as I want it. Unless you plan on re-installing from scratch again once potato become stable, I'd recomend sticking to potato and hoping that nothing breaks (too badly). It also has the advantage that you get to update stuff as the maintainer updates them. I doubt they will be doing much to October Gnome for slink (seeing it's now November!), but the Gnome stuff in Potato does seem to be updated occasionally, with new stuff added frequently. Of course, this is all IMHO, but it's what I'm doing. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling