On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:36 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > If only Debian stable wasn't like 5 years out of date...
18 months, but who's counting? ;-) > the only way to have a reasonable desktop running Debian is to run > unstable, which is, well, unstable. That's just not true. I'm running a combination of unstable and "experimental" (in order to get Gnome 2.6 & Evo 1.5), and the system is very stable. My wife uses the "testing" branch (but she doesn't know it), and it works perfectly for her. > last I ran Debian everytime I used apt-get to upgrade, it'd break > packages left and right. Your experiences are, of course, your own, but I've never had any problems when running "pure" unstable. > Jeff > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:27 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:56 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you've been a bad boy > > > and have been using rpm --force to install packages. Don't do that. > > > Really. It's Bad (tm). > > > > > > You need to install glib2 > > > > He needs to forsake The Dark Side, and come to Debian. The journey > > is hard, and the way rocky, but in the end you will reach Nirvana, > > and never, ever have to re-install again. > > > > All Hail APT! All Praise apt-get! All Hail apt-cache!! -- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
