<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian > packages gone pear shaped lately??
Not hugely for me, using stable and unstable on a few archs. Unstable has warts every now and then, but nothing major. > Latest glitch was last night when I upgraded KDE to 3.1.1 on Woody. Ahr, given that woody doesn't include KDE 3.1.1, you must be using unofficial sources, which are not guaranteed to work as well as 'pure' Debian sources. They could be doing all sorts of horrific things (often, bleeding edge desktop stuff will drag in dependencies lower down, which may affect other parts of the system, unrelated to your desktop packages). > I've been using Debian for over 3 years (Linux for over 7, and other > *nix's for more than a decade) and never had these sort of packaging > problems - Dead Rat/RPM is the exception....man does that blow. Seems to > only be a problem with back-ported packages (eg, XFree 4.2.x or KDE 3 for > Woody), but still it should "Just Work (tm)". Absolutely, packaging problems may affect unofficial sources for *any* distribution, be it RPM-based, deb-based, pkg-based, whatever. If you don't want problems, stick to the distro. Otherwise, you're left to your own devices (and the help of the unofficial package maintainers if forthcoming). - Jeff -- I don't know whose brain child it was, but it was quite an ugly child. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
