> >> MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good, > >> it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros > >> aren't interested to add it to official repositories. MATE is the only > >> software I know available for Linux, that does conflict with common > >> software. > > I use MATE and I have not experience any conflicts. Do you have any > > examples of programs that don't work when MATE is installed? > > I am on Sid, if that helps. > > > There's an entire subculture on Debian dedicated to blind hatred of MATE > for no reason. "Conflicts" are their chief complaint yet I've never once > seen MATE bashers actually demonstrate any real, reproducible conflict. > I've used it on Stable, Testing, and Unstable all with zero conflicts > whatsoever.
There were naming conflicts early on with Gnome 3. Those are gone. There are two packages that still conflict: mate-desktop-gnome and mate-dialogs-gnome. The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome isn't needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can serve in place for zenity as well). mate-desktop-gnome conflicts with gnome-desktop-data. They did a rename trick with this, and another package, mate-desktop, serves the same purpose, I believe, and it doesn't conflict. I think. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/002f01cec69f$bfc7b8c0$3f572a40$@allums.com
