On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:15:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Jordan Haddow wrote: > > > Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable) and everything has been > > > going fine, until I tried to install KDE. For some reason the KDE packages > > > are all messed up. They are either all different versions or, as in some > > > cases, missing altogether. Thanks for your help. > > > > Welcome to unstable ... dependencies are sometimes broken there. Make > > sure appropriate bugs are filed (http://bugs.debian.org/). > > :-) In the old days the map maker would not know what geography lay in > certain places of the map and would just say "there be dragons there" > as a warning. Unstable is one of those places. Unstable is "today's > build" and is the development area for the next release. KDE needs to > simmer on the stove there a little longer before it will be ready to > serve. Remember that they are cooking for 11 architectures!
Sadly, in the case of KDE right now, that's a poor excuse. The main reason why KDE 3 is not in testing, for instance, is that its release-critical bugs simply aren't being fixed, and, looking at for example kdebase's current list, most of them apply to all architectures. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
