Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Rainer Mager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # David (and all), # # Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with pacages # in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is # encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:32, Rainer Mager wrote: > David (and all), > > Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with > pacages > in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is > encouraging but, no

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> regarding RPM. The case in point is that I've wanted to install > some new Gnome related RPM's that require the x-devel > RPMs. The problem is that I've, by hand, upgraded X to 4.0x > and the needed x-devel RPMs are 3.3.6. Of course I can tell > it to ignore the dependancies but then what is the

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:32:10PM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > David (and all), > > Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with > pacages > in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is > encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions wil

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> David (and all), > > Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with > pacages > in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is > encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to > build/install by hand X, glibc, postg

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Sean
d, once again, thanks for the > info. > > --Rainer > > > -Original Message- > > From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:27 PM > > To: Rainer Mager > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Cons

RE: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Rainer Mager
sday, February 27, 2001 5:27 PM > To: Rainer Mager > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Considering Debian > > > To quote "Rainer Mager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # So, to make a long story short, how is the Debian package manager in > this > #

Re: Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Rainer Mager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # So, to make a long story short, how is the Debian package manager in this # regards? Do the same problems exist? Well, understand that there are two parts to the Debian packaging system. 'apt', and 'dpkg'. 'dpkg' is roughly equivalent to functio

Considering Debian

2001-02-27 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I've been using Linux for a long time (7ish years) and for the past year have been using RedHat 6.2. Anywho, my biggest complaint with RH is regarding RPM. The case in point is that I've wanted to install some new Gnome related RPM's that require the x-devel RPMs. The problem is th