Re: Debian Weekly News - June 27th, 2000
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:14:53PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Well at work we added one line to /etc/apt/sources.list which pointed to
> helixcode and no problems so far (however saying that there was a conflict
> between gnome-panel and one of their packages (gnome-applets??)).
Namespace conflicts (package names, files within the file system)
are bound to occur with multiple .deb sources. As I said, quality
control will suffer. In most cases, those .deb sources won't even
care about packaging quality I'd guess.
> Another reason - internal use only software sites.
That's quite reasonable, and quite different.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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