On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:08:54 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > > > Anyone else seeing this? > > > > Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, > > but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there anybody else > > besides me that is a bit annoyed with the fact that many of > > Helixcode's packages are not well polished? > > > > The problem that I'm referring to is that a lot of packages > > seem to have duplicate files, that is, there are some packages > > that try to overwrite other package's files. > > > > I just tried installing Helixcode's Gnome on a brand new > > potato installation and I've received loads and loads of > > warnings from apt/dpkg about this problem. Unfortunately, the > > only packages that I can remember having this problem are > > libgnomeprint* (and, more precisely, the i18n files). > > > > Are there other people seeing this problem or is it a problem > > with me? (Of course, if it is indeed a problem with HC's > > packages, then the solution would be to split the packages to > > avoid them doing wrong things). > > yes i installed helix on one debian potato box. the helix packages > are very very poorly made, i am NOT going to install helix packages > ever again, instead i think upgrading to woody would be a better > choice. when you upgrade to woody you get current gnome packages > which negates the need for helix.
Strange, I haven't had any of these probs on my potato. OTOH, I had never installed /any/ potato gnome packages, only Helix. Maybe that's got something to do with it? I'm very satisfied with the quality oh Helix's debs I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a GNU generation. Visit http://www.gnu.org/
