On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:30:00PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: . . . > But it wants a whole debian tree, not just some additional packages. I > can install the packages manually, but this involves a lot of dpkg -I > or checking the dependencies first. . . . > . . . New packages for wmaker etc. usually need newer versions of > other packages. And these need other new stuff, and so on.
> I like the Debian philosophy, but I also see that soooo many things > don't work well/correctly/at all. And I always always run into some > problem when installing new stuff, like having to download many other > stuff, or some other programs refuse to work after that. I need newer > windowmanagers, newer CDburning software, MP3 encoding software, and > much more. Lots of stuff to download, and probably that's not enough, > because of my outdated libraries. . . . > So, what would I need to do to get an up to date system? Without being > online for days (which costs some money here). Or is potato finished > very soon? To answer your question: if you're in a big hurry, you could install apt on your slink system. Potato should be released in some weeks, and potato+apt will solve all the problems you refer to. I personally have been using potato for months now with only a few problems, so upgrading to potato "early" wouldn't be a terrible idea. The Debian folks I spoke to at LinuxWorld Expo say that the new releases after potato should come much closer together. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See <http://www.iconsf.org> for I-Con information.
