Oops - mail read question

Peter Lavender plaven at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jun 10 20:29:05 EST 2002


On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 14:32, Mark Purcell wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:51:31PM +1000, Peter Lavender wrote:
> > * Paul Bryan (pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
> > > I tried Ximian Evolution but found I needed a whole lot of rpm packages
> > > installed to get it going. After a while of going through failed dependencies I
> > > gave up. The list just seemed to get longer and longer.
> > 
> > Nope.. that's a fair call.. One thing I really hate these days is
> > spending ages trying to get an app to install.  "Just do it" I say.
> 
> 
> Dependancy management is a big part of what Debian is all about..

Which I would have installed had I been able to get xfree setup right or
with little hassle... but I couldn't and since mandrake did it all,
that's what's there... 

It's running on my hp-parisc box, and I love apt-get update, apt-get
upgrade each week.

Pete





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