On Tuesday 05 August 2003 10:33, Ian Hickson wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was amused to see my blog post [1] made it to this list. I figured > I'd clarify a few points which were omitted from that blog in the > interests of brevity and humour. > > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, his main problem is "Having not used Debian for about > > 8 years". > > Most of your new users (all of them in fact, by definition!) will > never have used Debian before. This should not stop them using your > product.
What I meant with that is that your main problem is that you have an old linux user approach. A typical new user won't even try to build from sources. [snip] > After reading the whole man page, I did try apt-get install libgtk1.2, > but then I got the whole conflict problem I mention later in my blog. This is the problem with pinning. It is not easy to handle for beginners (especially if they are by themselves), and it is IMHO a very bad idea from whoever installed a Debian system on your laptop to have put different releases sources in the sources.list file. [snip] > (After all, apt-get had just failed me, why would it succeed now?) Because Dr. Murphy sometimes forgets to annoy you ? ;) [snip] > Yeah. Unfortunately, to support my radeon chipset I have to use the > unstable version apparently. I think the "testing" version works at least in 2D for every radeon chip. What can't be denied, is that X is not the easiest part to configure on a Debian system... > > (though it's equally possible that he did this himself, making random > > changes without understanding them in the hope of making things work) > > Nope, I wouldn't even have known where to start with respect to using > unstable releases if it wasn't for the kind people on #mozilla. :-) When trying to solve debian issues, try #debian ;) Mike -- "Do you know what's the best thing about being me ? There's so many me ! " -- Agent Smith Reloaded
