Sean Atkinson wrote: > Hi, > > [ I hope debian-testing is the most appropriate list for this - I > figured gtk-gnome was more for active development. ] > > To compare Gnome on a Debian system with Red Hat's new Fedora Core 1, > I recently installed the testing "sarge" release for the first time. > Having rid myself of the KDE hangovers from a "desktop" task > selection, I manually added enough Gnome packages for a usable > desktop. So far I like what I see - it feels snappy and looks good > too. > > However the one big sticking point is Evolution. I notice an old > release is available for stable "woody", and a newer one for unstable > "sid", but there doesn't appear to be anything available for sarge. > To use either of the available packages has some pretty severe > dependency implications. I tried following instructions to rebuild > the latest source, but that too requires a bunch of missing build > dependencies. exactly why its not in testing yet. > > What's up? Is there some problem I'm not aware of that makes > Evolution difficult on sarge? > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=evolution
> Cheers, > > Sean.