I had some problems with glib, gtk, and gnome in the past. As you just pointed out to me earlier, you can easily download the source from unstable and build your own package. I think it is best to do this and not run unstable. At least if you don't want to deal with the possibility of a broken system.
I agree that unstable is very stable, but you can run into the occasional problem. I just wouldn't suggest anyone run unstable unless they are fairly familiar with Linux. New users shouldn't have to worry about these problems. You're obviously more knowledgable than a beginner. I think most beginners wouldn't be able to troubleshoot the Netscape problem. Speaking of xmms, thanks for the suggestion of building the packages. I did get xmms working without the broken dependencies. I was wondering how Debian dealt with these issues. Kevin On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:31:11PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Kevin Cramer wrote: > > I wouldn't upgrade to potato. I used to run a system from unstable > > and it worked fairly well but I finally got burned. > > > > How so? I've been running unstable since last Dec and I have yet > to have any serious problems. glibc2.1 broke java, and I had to > rebuild liburi-perl to get netscape to install, but other than > that, my system has not been severely hosed. > > On the contrary, I've been able to play with the latest and greatest > software and had to compile from source much less stuff because > Debian is extremely up to date. You see posts from people on -user > at least once a week wanting to install stuff from potato, everything > from xmms to kernel-package to the new X. > -- > Stephen Pitts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmaster - http://www.mschess.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
