On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:36 am, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > Would you also recommend using the ximian red-carpet to help install > updates as well?
When Ximian gnome was becoming stable, I installed it. I installed it because it had a gui in the control panel to set up Internet sharing. It had Evolution, which I really liked. I used red-carpet for a while to keep things up to date. It worked. At some point there was an update for Redhat that I needed but had not been made available yet via ximian. I ran up2date only to find that there were a ton of RedHat packages in my up2date list. Many were packages that I had installed already, but with ximian extensions. This concerned me, so I installed the redhat versions. My next red-carpet update wanted to replace these 40 megs of packages with ximian's version. I said no and never looked back. Now, I cannot upgrade mozilla to Redhat's newest supported version in 7.2. I mean, I could, but, ximian packages have some dependency on the current version of mozilla that I have. I am wary of breaking dependencies. But, I now have un-updated ximian packages. I tried the other day to run red-carpet for the heck of it. It no longer launches. I will eventually reinstall. Moral of my story: use red-carpet if you intend to stay with that Desktop for the installed life of your OS. Otherwise, you may want to just stay with your distributor's update system. Now, I just use MonMotha's firewall script for internet sharing (so much faster and easier than a gui) and Debian Woody offers Evolution - evolution in a stable debian distro is as good as it gets. scott
