On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:59 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Fri April 15 2005 11:52 am, David Krider wrote:
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Bottom line this for: are a lot of people really using this and NOT having problems? Or is this stuff just as tricky as it sounds? Anyone? If it's reasonable, I could definitely see using it. If it's hit-and-miss, well, I'll probably still at least try it... ;-)
I've had my system "killed" twice by apt, so I won't use it. If SUSE ever provides it, so I know it's going to work properly, THEN I'll use it. I don't like screwing up a production environment.
Indeed. I've just installed a few packages now, notably the xine packages from packman, and gputty (from the same), and I've just run into my first problems. I went to install postgresql from the official sources (including the new FTP sources), and I'm getting RPM database errors. Since I've never seen this before, I can only conclude that it's apt screwing with me. I guess I've tried it now, and can forget about it. I think, like Fred, that when Novell packages apt with SuSE officially, I'll give it another look. Until then, I note that 1) the packman xine packages install fine by hand (I've used them for years), and 2) red-carpet is now being included in the distro, and though the software it provides may be buggy, I've not seen it screw up my system. Regards all, dk