On Tue 27 Mar 01, 1:17 PM, David Steinberg said: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > <sort-of-rant on which packages to get> > > this problem is more general, there are some 'groups' of packages that > > all provide same/similar functionality but it's not clear which ones > > work together, netscape packages are similar (or at least were when I > > was installing netscape). > > </sort-of-rant> > > Agreed. These mesa and glide packages are very confusing. Netscape is > similar. I don't know if it could be resolved by better naming, or if > maybe there needs to be some documentation explaining the twisted logic > <g> behind these intricately related groups of packages. > > Do others find that the current combination of naming and dependancies are > sufficient to make things clear? absolutely. maybe there should be a debian QA group who look at questions of usability like this?
> How I dealt with this: first, I used apt-get. I acutally got rid of the > old packages first, and it uninstalled lots of packages that I didn't want > to get rid of, like libwine, wine, xbase-clients, xf86setup, and > xscreensaver-gl. That made me a little bit nervous, but when I > reinstalled them, it actually installed xlibmesa3 and xlibmesa-dev; that's > how I found those packages in the first place. been there. done that. :) pete
