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