Re: Out-of-control Panel

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:01:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Jeff Self wrote:
> I saw that some of you are having similar problems to me.
> Here's my list of problems:

I don't get this pair, but I haven't updated recently.

> Don't know whats wrong with #1 but #2 is probably because when I ran an
> update on my system which runs Debian, it updated my ximian-gnome
> packages with regular gnome packages because they are now newer than 
> the ximian-gnome packages. Therefore, most of my ximian-gnome
> packages have been replaced by gnome packages.  [snip]
> Plus they changed locations of the packages for gnome 1.4 beta 1. So my
> helix-gnome stuff was not updating and my packages were being replaced
> with the regular gnome. I wonder if the same thing is happening again and
> I just don't know where to get the updated packages from.

I think the decision to put the beta packages separate was so that
people didn't run apt-get and get them by mistake. I think this was
a good decision. Beta software is, well. Beta :) 

I haven't seen packages of later Gnome betas though. 

I probably avoided the mix and match because I added the beta line to
apt/sources.list, and commented out all the normal ones, because I had
not updated in a good while. I didn't want to get bogged down in all
the other stuff; I just wanted the beta packages. So I ran apt-get 
with just the Ximian lines visible, not the main Debian ones; and 
then uncommented the main Debian ones again.

This was sheer "make things easy by avoiding upgrading loads at once"
behaviour, but it seems to have saved me from quite a few problems.

Telsa