[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven Esbjerg) wrote: >I run dselect do get what I need but something breaks on the way and I don't >get bin86 and other importent things. I rerun dselect and get the missing >stuff (I thought). Somehow Perl seemes to break a lot of dependencies and I >end up with a half installed Gnome and missing X-libs... >I fix most of it and compile a new kernel with support for SMP and get X >running. I create my default useraccount and get my home-dir via nfs only to >find out that my fonts are twisted, xscreensaver cannot be installed without >deinstalling half of the Gnome-stuff. I believe it's Perl thats busting it up >again but I'm not sure. > >So my conclusion from this experience: Unless the chosen ones (developers) >work really hard on potato it's not going to be out as stable soon. To be >honest: This was my worst experience with Debian and it seems like it's not >over because I'll have to compile a lot of packeges on my own to fix the >dependencies...
Don't judge potato on the current mess, please. A couple of simultaneous problems (libc6-bin, xscreensaver, etc.) have left the archive in a highly inconsistent state, but I'm quite sure that that'll be fixed soon. If you look for the relevant threads on debian-devel, you'll see that the changes required to fix this are really very minor, but the fact that the release manager is away for a few days has slowed things down. To be fair, now was an extremely bad time to pick to install potato. :) Give it a few days, maybe a week, and reinstall (or perhaps just rerun dselect if you feel confident that you can put things back together); most of this mess should be sorted out by then. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
