On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:36 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I'll add to what Tzafrir said - The reason I was using the same distro > without reinstalling before this crash came along is that, with debian, > you don't need to. The system was kept up to date with practically no > effort on my side. That requires three things: > A. Automated infrastructure - the technical means of automatically > upgrading. > B. Dependable packages - The piece of mind that letting the automatic > procedure upgrade everything will not break my system. > C. Good coverage - The packages covered by the automatic system actually > cover all the packages you need and have installed. > > A is available to all distros nowadays. I have already found Mandrake > lacking on C. Now, can anyone comment on B?
B. could be better. not counting on build dependencies (what you need to have installed so that you can build a certain package from sources) which mostly suck as most packagers don't pay enough attention to that, the binary dependencies are good but sometimes not good enough and you can get the auto installer to knock itself silly with file conflict warnings from the RPM database - at which case you can identify which packages cause the conflict and tell the auto installer to upgrade or remove the offending packages. Its been a couple of years since I last insalled a package with all required dependencies only to discover that it didn't work beacuse it needs to use something else which is not listed in the dependencies. > I did what all of you suggested. I have an Israeli layout defined. When > I try to type stuff with it, however, I only get question marks. I have > just remebered that the last time I had to install a Hebrew locale in > the system to solve that. KDE3 uses unicode. you need to either explicitly set a character map in your system's LC_CTYPE, or have unicode fonts installed. -- Oded ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
