----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 01:38:10 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Easy way to update Gaim to 0.70?
>>big snip>> > >Angus inquired: > > PS. Derek, are there no conflict issues with having plf and texstar as > > sources for urpmi? There is a vague warning about conflicts on the Easy > > Urpmi page here: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php > > I have refrained from adding texstar because of concerns of this. If there > > are no issues then I will add tex promptly. > > > > "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around > > in awareness." -- James Thurber > > I was not trying to say you *will* get a dependency problem if you install > packages from source forge. Just that you run a *risk* of a dependency > problem. > If you install only packages compiled with the same libraries as on the > distro, then you can be fairly confident they will work OK. > When you install packages built for a different release or distro, then you > can end up with conflicting dependencies. > Nowdays I only use Mandrake specific RPMs or else compile from source (and use > checkinstall to create an RPM for me) > > As for plf and Texstar. > Texstar has some packages which are duplicates of ones in plf. I am not aware > of any actual incompatibility. They are both built using standard Mandrake > libraries. There has been the odd occasion where plf and Texstar have given > the same package different names which causes a little confusion (e.g. the > lame mp3 encoder ), but I think now they co-operate better. > > > > derek > >************************************************* Thanks so much for that clarification/explanation Derek. Best regards. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *********************************************** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.1~ *********************************************** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *********************************************** -- ___________________________________________________ OperaMail free e-mail - http://www.operamail.com OperaMail Premium - 28MB, POP3, more! US$29.99/year Powered by Outblaze
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