Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Yaro Kasear: > On 08/01/2012 11:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 01/08/12 11:52 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > >> On 08/01/2012 02:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote: > >>>> Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wrote: > >>>>> My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from > >>>>> Debian Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if > >>>>> one keeps using > >>>>> Debian Multimedia there are rarely any problems. > >>>> > >>>> Now I got curious because that sound so general. What makes it > >>>> very hard? In my experience installing and removing packages has > >>>> always been > >>>> easy in Debian. > >>> > >>> The versioning scheme of Deb Multimedia packages is meant to take > >>> priority over the Debian proper packages, but this can create > >>> problems under certain circumstances. > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> Andrei > >> > >> I haven't been using Debian as long as many on this list. Are > >> failures with Debian-Multimedia that overtly common or are they > >> rather circumstantial? > > > > It's not failures so much as conflicts. Certain Debian packages will > > not upgrade because the requisite libraries have been replaced by > > Debian-multimedia ones. > > > > It's a shame because there are some very nice tools in > > Debian-multimedia that I'd love to be able to use but not at the > > expense of core Debian packages. > > And how promptly do the Debian-Multimedia developers resolve these > conflicts? Is this a big issue or just an occasional minor hiccup?
From what I see in the debian-multimedia discussion mailing list Christian is quite responsive to bug reports. But conflicts? I don´t know. I´d suggest to subscribe to that mailinglist and ask there. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208022047.34332.mar...@lichtvoll.de
