Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Tim Kelley wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: For little trivial things like dockapps, well, I wouldn't care, but it can get messy. If you are going to use pinning and grab stuff from different branches, it is really best to grab the src-deb with apt-build

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: It is perfectly acceptable to install "testing" or "unstable" packages. Preferably "testing" packages as "testing" is frozen and will probably become "stable" in the next month or two if all goes well. There used to be a "frozen" directory in addition to "stable" and "testin

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Thomas Adam wrote: I must have missed the part where you are owed a response. I suggested that a response was owed? I said simply that one was not made. You completely misrepresent my comment. Do me the kindness of never responding to a question I raise here in the future please. jlowell -- T

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:12:39 -0500 Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: > > > 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of > > "stable" and "unstable "

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: > 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of "stable" > and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it occured to me > that the use of non-Debian

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of "stable" > and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it occured to me > that the use of non-Debian packages might equally be discouraged. The > dock a

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:01:10PM -0400, John Lowell wrote: > Not what I'd call a torrential response to my first message regarding > dock appts so I thought I'd write again in the hope that someone might > help at this time. :-) I must have missed the part where you are owed a response. > 1.

Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Not what I'd call a torrential response to my first message regarding dock appts so I thought I'd write again in the hope that someone might help at this time. :-) Although I'm by no means new to GNU/LInux, I am new to Debian. I've recently installed "testing" including base packages, X window