Re: KDE 3.5.3, IPv6, and CUPS

I used to do that as well.. there was some sort of primal urge there
for me, made me beat my chest harder than the other tech monkeys :).

Now I run debian stable mainly, it makes me not break things
constantly and have to fix them. I can definatly see how the decision
to constantly do gives you job security however.

viva la debian-backports feeds!

Shane

On 6/26/06, Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net> wrote:
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> Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:42, James Zuelow wrote:
> >> Anyone else running KDE 3.5.3 on Debian testing?
> >>
> >> I do a dist-upgrade almost every day, and there have been a lot of KDE
> >> components coming down the pipe. Testing == sometimes broken.
> >>
> >> I recently lost the ability to resolve localhost with KDE. I
> >> originally noticed it when my desktop shortcuts to localhost stopped
> >> working and I had to use Firefox to get to my gnump3d music, but didn't
> >> pay much attention to it until I realized I couldn't print anymore. In
> >> Konqueror, http://127.0.0.1:631 would work fine, but
> >> http://localhost:631 would time out. Firefox did not have any issue
> >> with http://localhost:631, and other machines on the subnet could also
> >> connect so I was confident that it was a KDE problem and not a CUPS
> >> problem.
> >
> > I use testing, upgrade several times a week. The only weird thing that
> > happened to me is Zeroconf gets installed as a depends on KDE-Network
> > meta-package, and I ended up in the twilight zone of 169.254.x.x. Not
> > sure what else could happen with Zeroconf , I do have a dhcp server
> > running just fine on my firewall. I don't use KDE as my desktop/window
> > manager , but I use quite a few kde apps.
> Hmmm... I am not sure what the effect of running dist-upgrade almost
> every day as opposed to doing a simple update to get the latest list for
> the distribution (sarge == stable; etch == testing; sid == unstable).
> What, pray tell, is your goal in doing a dist-upgrade almost every day?
>
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