Thanks! It helps to know why people are suggesting to not go with Ximian. I guess if the same stuff is available via apt there's not much of a point.
Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaya Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:05 PM Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome on Woody? > I used to use Ximian's gnome. However, using sid's gnome I don't see > much difference b/w what I have and what they have. I think the Control > Center is a little bit different (but big deal, same functionality) and > the only thing that I saw on a ximian'ized redhat box that I didn't have > was that battstatt applet (which is nicer than the default gnome one) > which I packaged up, and I believe is available at > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/debian/ > > I'd assume that if there are other things missing here and there people > would more more than willing to package them up. It makes life much > easier to get a major package like gnome directly from debian (i.e. if > you ever want to install something that depends on gnome that ximian > doesn't package you could run into some major conflicts) > > shaya > > On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 23:02, jennyw wrote: > > I've seen some posts here saying that people should not install Ximian Gnome > > if they use Woody. Is there a reason why? I currently have Potato on a > > system that I'm going to upgrade to Woody at one point. I was thinking of > > installing Ximian Gnome on it in the meantime ... is this going to cause > > huge problems? > > > > Should I just upgrade to Woody and not even bother with Ximian in the > > meantime? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jen > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED],yucs.org} > http://yucs.org/~spotter/ > > > >
