[I don't know why do you cross-post --- at least I read nothing about KDE] On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:27:40 -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is, why should I want > to use Debian, if I am clearly being told by Debian the system is so hard to > install. Because you have to install only once per machine?
> The one thing that MUST be agreed to by EVERY > distribution of linux, is that ALL package names and locations MUST remain > as > ORIGINALLY INTENDED by the package maintainers, WITHOUT EXCEPTION. * We have to play the package-naming game if the upstream doesn't know about SONAME. * If some other distribution uses, say, glibc 2.2 and Debian uses 2.1[1], then using the same package name doesn't work. [1] Yes, it is a history. -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 smile to answer --- Treasure, "Radiant Silvergun", attitude #3 for SBS-130