On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Andre Costa wrote: >As a final suggestion, YMMV but I believe you don't need to install all >30 packages. Here I have: No no no no no! Do not mix and match XFree86 releases. There are more than just code changes. The actual font packages themselves, and many other subpackages contain all sorts of changes that are necessary for proper installation and operation. Mixing and matching some of them might or might not work, but increases the chances incredibly that you'll end up with a broken installation. Do _not_ file bugs in bugzilla if mixing different XFree86 release RPMs. >~ rpm -qa | grep XFree >XFree86-libs-data-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-xfs-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-xauth-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-devel-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-libs-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-font-utils-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 >XFree86-tools-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >(of course, I have all mentioned dependencies installed as well). > >I am not sure, but you probably need updated versions of fontconfig and >freetype too. Absolutely required. >Last but not least, maybe you're indeed getting RawHide wrong; >it suffers from the same conceptual flaw all RPM-based distros >suffer: there is no automatic way of retrieving all packages >necessary for a specific installation because dependencies >cannot be resolved automatically (a la Debian's apt-get). >RawHide is merely a repository for bleeding-edge packages. Which is very much intentional. Rawhide is not intended to be used in that manner. You can consider it a flaw if you like, but it isn't. You just would like rawhide to be something that it is not. There's nothing wrong wanting something like that though. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
