On 06/03/2014 11:14 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Di 03 Jun 2014 16:25:01 CEST, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> If I want to try in Wheezy using backports, I get: >> >> # sudo apt-get install -t wheezy-backports mate-desktop-environment >> [...] >> 0 upgraded, 69 newly installed, 0 to remove and 251 not upgraded. >> >> Does this seem normal to you? How come there's 251 not upgraded? Will >> this break my current Wheezy GNOME desktop (I mean: did you test that?)? > > The 251 means: there are 251 packages in wheezy-backports that are newer > than on your system (i.e. than in wheezy, if the system is 100% wheezy). > > MATE has no explicitly versioned dependencies on packages in > wheezy-backports (only inside its own stack of MATE packages). > > So an installation of MATE on Debian wheezy from wheezy-bpo should not > upgrade any of the currently installed packages (assuming a clean wheezy > install). > > If you observe something different, please report back and I will take a > closer look. > > You current GNOME installation from wheezy won't break when installing > MATE. I run setups like that myself. The MATE upstream team did a great > job in completely creating a new namespace on the file system for MATE > installation files. None of the MATE packages conflicts with current > GNOME packages. In fact, MATE has started using current GNOME components > (e.g. gnome-keyring) or libs (e.g. libwnck). > > Thanks, > Mike
I'm now running MATE on my laptop. Bye bye to the slow GNOME 3, I'm back with file manager at the speed I was used to, a globally reactive desktop env, the good old applets which I missed, etc. It just works! :) And it feels goooooood! Thanks a lot for the work. This is just awesome. Just one tiny thing. Could we have a Debian logo instead of the Mate logo on the top-left, just as we used to? :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538eb2c5.5000...@debian.org