On 14/01/11 04:21, Mike Bird wrote:
The main problems seem to be desktop-base-trinity (which conflicts with desktop-base and therefore with gnome-core and kdm and much more) and sudo-trinity (which conflicts at the file level with sudo and scares people - why does a desktop want to replace a key piece of my security infrastructure?)
I haven't yet been able to figure out the reason for requiring
trinitized
versions of these packages.
--Mike Bird
Sudo-trinity cannot be essential to Trinity as I have neither installed.
Does it get installed as a dep or recommends of a Trinity meta-package?
Debian users traditionally prefer sudo for selective commands only or not at all, unlike Ubuntu. Sudo from Debian is installed here but I use only su in the terminal and kdesu (not kdesudo) for a few root X apps, as described in an earlier post.
I don't know much about desktop-base|desktop-base-trinity. Neither are installed here. I use a selective Trinity installation on Squeeze with LXDE also installed. Everything runs fine.
But yes, any core system component from non-Debian sources will worry Debian traditionalists.