John Dong
jdong at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 1 09:56:08 CST 2005
To the Developers listening in (or being spammed to listen in ;-) ):
What do you feel about \sh's suggestion of "upgrading gnome or kde"?
Surely that'll take kdelibs or libgnome*, qt/gtk updates and such upward
dependencies.
On 11/1/05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Am Montag, den 31.10.2005, 11:29 -0600 schrieb Travis Watkins:
> > On 10/31/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Give us some more information -- what's the error message? We aren't
> > > psychic.
> > >
> >
> > There is no error, he just wants to get new apps and such without
> > upgrading his entire distro. Personally I'd rather get all the new
> > features of GNOME and etc and upgrade but he seems to be stuck in his
> > ways. He is threatening to go back to windows to try to get us to give
> > him what he wants. I say let him go, we don't need greedy
> > manipulators.
>
> First of all, I think it's quite ok to ask for "new stuff" in hoary.
> If it's possible to upgrade gnome or kde via ubuntu-backports let's do
> it.
> If it's too much efford, because of new things in gnome, which is
> requiring a new toolchain etc. then you should not backport the new
> crack.
> But annoying people to name them "greedy manipulators" is not a good
> idea. Better to stop hitting the reply button to those mails then.
>
> Regards,
>
> \sh
>
>
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