debian package, upgrade and libxfce4util4?

[Alexander Toresson]

On 7/26/06, Carl Symons <carlsymons at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're welcome.
>
> I prefer the debian, apt-get, synaptic course too.
>
> Why I went the direct route...
> MEPIS, ubuntu, debian, synaptic, Kpackage were not giving the desired
> results. I worked on trying to get that to work right for many hours.
> No complaint about that...just a fact. I wanted to use XFCE. I'd used
> it before successfully. I saw that the XFCE forums and support were
> active, helpful and _knowledgeable_.
>
> Using an installer for Linux is similar to how it's done with Windows.
> A key advantage to using the package approach with Linux is that the
> software has been vetted pretty well. So less chance of trojans and
> other junk. The installer for XFCE 4.3.90.2 is on a link from the XFCE
> site. Hard to see how it could be any safer.
>
> Yes, it's a beta. So there may be things that don't work right. But
> considering your experience (and mine which is virtually the same),
> the beta works right and the debian approach doesn't.
>

I'll have to disagree here. If you run debian *unstable*, you should
expect that stuff might break sometimes. And this is just a
transition; stuff will hopefully work correctly in a week or so.
Also, bypassing the package management in the debian might not be the
best thing to do. This might conflict with other versions of the xfce
components that you might have installed. And it will be harder to
uninstall. And, you'll have to compile it yourself and hunt down all
-dev packages you need for building it. Also, the debian package
manager won't know that Xfce is installed, so you won't get upgrades
for Xfce when you issue an apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade.

Also, note that debian does have the beta.

Regards, Alexander Toresson