It's hard enough dealing with conflicting dependencies in the RPM
package manager without Ximian's added layer of complexity. Ximian's
great if you just want to use their software plus default installed
software. I ran into problems when I brought in outside 3rd party RPMS.
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:56, Steven Buehler wrote:
> I won't doubt you there, Levi; XD2 is an excellent desktop, but it assumes
> that it's the only desktop you want to use.
>
> SWB
>
> --- Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
> > > I would never install Ximian desktop. I did that over Redhat 7.1 when I
> > > first got into linux. Man oh man did it frazz things...
> >
> > There's been a lot of bashing of the Ximian desktop on this thread. I've
> > installed it a few times, mainly on systems I've built/configured for
> > other people. In those cases, I tend to use it instead of the "vanilla"
> > gnome installation because it seems a tad more polished, and also because
> > I was setting up those folks with evolution and red carpet anyway. It
> > really does work smoothly assuming a few things - the main one being: you
> > don't mix it with other versions of gnome - ximian wants to be the only
> > gnome install, or at least the only one in its file tree (you could get
> > away with ximian in /opt and stock gnome in /usr probably).
> > Notwithstanding this, it is a solid desktop (although personally, you'll
> > never pry me away from enlightenment and afterstep).
> >
> > Levi
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