Re: X + BVision + Debian + GNOME + Enlightenment problem

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> Yes, you could do something like :
> 
> dpkg --force-depends -i libc6_2.2.2-2.deb
> 
> and hope it works. Again i would _NOT_ do that myself.

there must be a way that Debian does it - otherwise people would have to
reinstall Linux systems each time libc changed, 
 
> Then try rebuilding it, i thought there were potato packages of XF4 around,
> but i guess these were only for i386, not sure i don't use them myself.

XFree 4.02 is part of Potato - PowerPC

its what I still ahve installed (have not had time to compile CVS'd 4.0.3
 
> It would take you ~400MB space on your harddisk and >5hours compilation on a
> 603e 240MHz.

;-)  see, when i have a whole evening/night that i can throw away I can
compile it :-)

(really, I guess I should have evrything ready and then do a 'make world'
just before I switch my monitor off for the night 8-) )

> And there are loads of improvement, remember, potato was frozen more than a
> year ago, alough it was released in july, so packages there are really old. 

yes, I get everything through 'testing' now. havent got the , errr
nerve/balls/stupidity/skills/time (delete as applicable) to run
'unstable'  8-)

alan