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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Upgrade question
From:       Terry <tg5027 () citlink ! net>
Date:       2002-01-28 2:36:03
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I would totally agree that using Yast is not perfect, only that it 
might be a better chance.  The only sure way to get either KDE or GNOME 
(or any other WM) to work very well is to install an entire 
distribution that has the WM you want to use.  After all, that's what 
we pay them the "big bucks" for - to integrate all of the world's 
collection of packages into something that is useful.  And it's well 
worth it!

This was probably the last time that I will attempt to upgrade a 
component in a distro, just to be "current".  You have to have a lot of 
extra time or an extream need to go through a process for which there 
is little support or documentation.  Compiling from source is even a 
more extreame measure that really requires significant need - not just 
idle curosity about what one is missing by not having the latest....


>>  Yast does not always do this correctly.  I had several old parts
>>  of KDE 2.2.1 still running after suse had more recient versions on
>>  their site.  Generally, unless there is a security concern, simple
>>  upgrades will not find their way into yast updates.

-- 
Terry
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