begin quote On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:02:45 -0400 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote: > >The downside is Debian is VERY slow to release stuff into their > >"stable" > >branch > > As an example, Debian's "stable" branch includes KDE v2.2. > kdebase-3.1.3 made into unstable on July 30th. When did KDE release > v3.1.3 ?? Debian (stable) is shipping Gnome 1.4; unstable seems to > have a mix of Gnome v2.1 and 2.2 stuff. No., They finally, the 14th of october got nautilus marked as unstable and can now ship that... Yeeeey. *cough* > I ran Debian (unstable) for a couple of years and it was rock-solid. > Problem was even the unstable branch took "too long", IMO, to get new > versions of software. With KDE 3.x, it was probably months after > release. > And even then, you had to use unofficial APT repositories to get the > stuff. Yeah.. Debian is unfriendly with this. Their package select tools are horrid at best as well ( tell me how to list the installerscript that belongs to a program, please. Needed that info today, and manpages for dpkg wasn't helpful ) even funnier is how their moving targets disables a lot of things like installing -dev packages to the old, but stable systemwide , packages you have installed. Yet another debianism is /etc/alternatives, which is a nightmare from the third world.. *cough* as it is I have been thrown into a world of half-stable half-unstable and some custom, software at work, and they tell me to manage it. Its interesting to learn debian the awful way. (now why is $prefix listed in a lot of the wrapperscripts? oops, bad packaing. bah. thirdparty sources ;./ ) //Spider Not so happy monk -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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