On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 09:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > I don't nag about endless lines, > > > It's not the end of the world, but unfavourable when you argument about > > not running into issues with your computer, while causing issues for the > > list, when you're using Windows, > > > IOW you might not experience issues with your computer, with Mate and/or > > Windows, but you at least cause issues when using Windows. > > > > This has nothing to do with Windows. You need to set your MUA to use word > wrap. Stop bitching about Windows and fix your MUA. > > > I'm not nagging about you. My concern is to nag about recommending a > > third party repository, that is known to cause issues. If the OP does > > like Cinnamon, then IMO the OP should use the official packages to > > ensure that it's as stable as possible and not to switch to Mate from a > > third party repository. If the OP needs a bug fix or a new feature of > > Cinnamon 2.0, it might be worse the effort to build it from source. > > The repository is "official", as it's run by people affiliated with MATE, if > I understand correctly. It's just not *Debian's* "official" repository. The > repository maintainers, along with MATE devs, have fixed up their packages to > work with Debian without conflicts. The problems you speak of DO NOT CAUSE > ISSUES when you use the correct .deb on a Debian system. This is about > allowing MATE into Debian, not allowing it into Arch, or Gentoo, or > Slackware. It also works in Fedora. If these two can solve it, the others > can, too. Maybe it's not ready for Arch. That's not upstream's problem! > It's Arch's problem! I'm sure MATE will be happy to work with Arch. But stop > using Arch as an example! > > Sheesh!
"Official" "third party" repository :D. Your MUA is broken, not my MUA! -- 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/1381589292.744.266.camel@archlinux
