On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 00:20 +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 22:48, Robert Brinson wrote: > > Currently, I am a Gentoo Linux user. It is a great distribution for > > people who want fine control over their system. I enjoy being able to > > just emerge whatever_program. However, I am getting a little tired of > > having to compile every little obscure library for a point update. So, > > I guess you could say I'm in the market for a new distro. > > > > I have used Red Hat (not Fedora), Mandrake, and Gentoo. Of all of > > them, I enjoy the control I have with Gentoo. I guess I'm looking for > > a distro that will allow me to obtain the latest xorg or gnome or > > firefox without having to go through a three hour compile session. RPM > > is not suitable for this, as I know from experience. Red Hat and > > Mandrake are very picky about dependencies making an upgrade of gnome or > > kde nearly impossible. One ends up in the RPM equivalent of dll hell. > > apt-get seems well suited for my needs. That is why I am posting to this > > debian list. However, when I browsed the package repositories on > > debian.org, I was disappointed. The stable repository is woefully out of > > date. The latest unstable gnome is version 2.6, and xorg is not even > > listed. Is it possible to easily have a debian install with the latest > > gnome 2.8 and xorg 6.8.1? I did see a debian-based distro called ubuntu > > that has gnome 2.8 out of the box. However, their faq says that one > > should not mix mainstream debian debs with ubuntu debs. So, that distro > > would preclude me from taking advantage of all of the packages in the > > debian repository. So, does anyone have advice for this situation? Am I > > asking the impossible of the current state of debian? > > > > "The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go > > fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." – > > John Gierach > > Hi, > > Do you really need gnome 2.8 right now? Is it really stable and good? (I don't > know. I'm using XFCE). > > Is it worth using Debian with Gnome 2.6 or rather another distro with Gnome > 2.8? I would say it really depends on your priorities and your actual needs. > If you don't really need Gnome 2.8 right now, then wait until 2.8 is ready, > but enjoy Debian from now on! > > ...And if you _really_ need Gnome 2.8, then: install Debian, go fishing ;-) > and come back when Gnome 2.8 is available as a .deb package! > > Have fun whatever you choose.
take a look here:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l | grep gnome | grep 2.8.0
ii gnome-about 2.8.0-1 The GNOME about box
ii gnome-applets 2.8.0-1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binaries
files
ii gnome-applets-data 2.8.0-1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - data files
ii gnome-control-center 2.8.0-1 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME 2
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.8.0-1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps
ii gnome-games 2.8.0-1 games for the GNOME desktop
ii gnome-games-data 2.8.0-1 data files for the GNOME games
ii gnome-panel 2.8.0-1 Launcher and docking facility for GNOME 2
ii gnome-panel-data 2.8.0-1 Common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.8.0-1 Utility library for loading .desktop files -
runtime files
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime files
ii libgnome2-common 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2 library - common files
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - runtime files
ii libgnomeprint2.2-data 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - data files
ii libgnomeprint2.2-dev 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - development
files
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture User Interface
- runtime files
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-common 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture User Interface
- common files
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-dev 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture User Interface
- devel files
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - runtime
files
ii libgnomeui-common 2.8.0-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - common
files
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ apt-cache policy libgnome2-common
libgnome2-common:
Installed: 2.8.0-1
Candidate: 2.8.0-1
Version Table:
*** 2.8.0-1 0
990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.6.1.2-2 0
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
So there now... GNOME 2.8.0-1, it is in experimental to not interfere
with Sarges release.
As far as X.Org... it is coming. Unfortunately Debian has a bit bigger
fish to fry, namely Sarge Releasing somewhere in the next decade.
X.Org is probably going to be Sarge+1 (or Etch as it is known)
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