debian package, upgrade and libxfce4util4?
Joe Klemmer
klemmerj at webtrek.com
Thu Jul 27 02:00:55 CEST 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 00:15 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> 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.
The same rational applies for rpm packages. Right now I'm using the
graphic installer in lew of rpms because, well, I don't think there are
any rpms. If/when they become available I'll definitely go with them.
Until then I'm doing fine with the installer so far.
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