On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Tzafrir, I don't consider myself an expert in Debian stuff - Adi, > Ira, Marc and some others are way better then me on this - but I'm > sure you can mix and match from potato and woddy. I don't see your > point here. I managed to compile gtk application within 5 minutes.
I'm hardly an expert. try Adi, Marc or Moshez. I only installed it becasue it takes my mind off sysadministration and lets me concentrate on actually running the apps I need. as for mix&match of different version debs, it usually works just fine, because they are made by the same people or by people that coordinate very nicely. the problem mentioned was not about mixing woody and potato, it was about mixing woody and stormix, and that's theoretically as problematic as mixing RPMs from RedHat and Mandrake, or worse, from RedHat and SuSE. so why is Debian better? like everyone said, better testing, and more strict sticking to the policies and standards. package format features help, but it's more about the human factor, people who care. if Stormix just took the technical skeleton and did not interact enough to keep compatibility afterwards, they detached themselves from the development circle and you can't mix in their packages anymore... -- Puff the magic dragon Ira Abramov ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
