Nearly all compact Linux computers feasible for gaming are sold
exclusively using NVIDIA graphics, and that company is hostile to libre
software.
So I think it is very important that we support AMD right now on what we
can, and ask manufacturers to include AMD graphics in those products.
Bec
Russ Allbery:
> I think it's correctly doing what it should in the situation
> described in this thread.
Okay, so what I said is what I saw. And deciding if it is true or not
has always been your choice.
Ralf Mardorf:
> Seemingly you can't provide new arguments, so you should expect to
> get
David Kalnischkies:
> Your complain was after all that apt declares some packages you
> consider unused as used...
The problem seems to be that the package manager does not make its basic
functionality, which is to make clear for users which packages they wish
to remove.
For me it seems a min
Ralf Mardorf:
> Do you think it would be a good idea if apt would provide a checklist
> that ask the user for each command 20 or 30 questions before it
> continues?
It could be that, instead of asking if to proceed, to write down
packages to exclude.
Alberto Salvia Novella:
>
Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso:
aptitude why $packagename
Oh! this is very useful!
David Kalnischkies:
> It is not a good idea to perform autoremoves unattended for situations
> in which you have installed A (gui) depends B (console) depends
> C (data), but later decide that you don't like A.
Wha
Julian Andres Klode:
It does not show you version numbers. gnome-shell recommends gdm,
because it works best with it, and breaks old gdm versions it does
not work with.
Okay. Thank you.
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Julian Andres Klode:
> Usually it is a Suggests from another existing package.
If I run "apt-cache depends gnome-shell", it says:
Recommends: gdm
Breaks: gdm
Is this normal, having a package both as recommended and as breaking?
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Julian Andres Klode:
> If A suggests B, and you install B in some way, you may have come to
> rely on the fact that A is extended by B on your system.
> Automatically removing B could thus cause an unexpected loss of
> functionality.
The point I do not understand is why after removing A, being A
Julian Andres Klode:
autoremove will remove all packages that no other package
PreDepends, Depends, Recommends, or Suggests.
Probably the problem is the latest.
Since I did not install other package apart from cortina, probably what
is holding back gdm is a package already present in the syst
Julian Andres Klode:
> It just happens that some of the newly installed dependencies are also
> Suggested by other installed packages, and thus are not removed,
> because you might have installed the package in order to extend the
> functionality of another installed package suggesting it.
sudo a
I want to report a bug that affects the .deb packaging itself, so every
single package manager is affected too.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1528028
How shall I do it?
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On 14/04/14 17:40, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Alberto Salvia Novella dixit:
>Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution?
First of: why “instead”? Many developers are active in other
distributions and/or operating systems. So am I.
I came to Debian for a number of reas
On 13/04/14 07:13, Pirate Praveen wrote:
Because my contributions are respected equally, in most other
distributions my contributions will be treated second class, subject
to wishes of managers, even those who don't contribute technically in
that area.
During the last month I found myself, as U
El 12/04/14 20:50, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez escribió:
For me, Debian is the best distro. That's my main reason.
Also:
(...)
* There isn't one big company making decision based on 'the market'.
(...)
Thanks for sharing your comments with me.
I asked this question because I have three intuitio
Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution?
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