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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Why I hate Gtk+/GNOME (from the perspective of an Ada supporter)
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> When you just install GNOME from OpenSuSE 10.3 and only apply security
> updates then GNOME works pretty stable these days (hasn't always been
> that way - 0.x and 1.x was atrocious). However: I advice strictly
> against activating the "GNOME STABLE" [1] upgrade channel.
>
> The best what will happen to you is that smart [2] will report version
> conflicts and will refuse to install the mess.
>
> There worse what can happen is that smart will resolve the version
> conflicts with 32 bit libraries - on your 64 bit system. Leaving you
> with an unusable system. And downgrading is the one area where rpm based
> installer have not yet caught up with dep based installer.

I'm surprised with your horror stories. Surely there must be other
platforms besides Debian where GTK+ is solid, dependable, and
buildable?

--
Ludovic Brenta.