Re: [Evolution] Re: Hi..

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:36 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> If only Debian stable wasn't like 5 years out of date...

18 months, but who's counting? ;-)

> the only way to have a reasonable desktop running Debian is to run
> unstable, which is, well, unstable.

That's just not true.  I'm running a combination of unstable and
"experimental" (in order to get Gnome 2.6 & Evo 1.5), and the system
is very stable.

My wife uses the "testing" branch (but she doesn't know it), and it
works perfectly for her.

> last I ran Debian everytime I used apt-get to upgrade, it'd break
> packages left and right.

Your experiences are, of course, your own, but I've never had any 
problems when running "pure" unstable.

> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:27 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:56 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you've been a bad boy
> > > and have been using rpm --force to install packages. Don't do that.
> > > Really. It's Bad (tm).
> > >
> > > You need to install glib2
> >
> > He needs to forsake The Dark Side, and come to Debian.  The journey
> > is hard, and the way rocky, but in the end you will reach Nirvana,
> > and never, ever have to re-install again.
> >
> > All Hail APT!  All Praise apt-get!  All Hail apt-cache!!

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>