{"id":96,"date":"2004-04-10T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=96"},"modified":"2004-04-10T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T15:56:38","slug":"dist-upgrade-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/10\/dist-upgrade-time","title":{"rendered":"dist-upgrade time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because work is still done on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.ydl.net\/mailman\/listinfo\/fedora-ppc\">fedora ppc<\/a> line of things, I track Sid (Debian unstable) on one of my iBook&#8217;s, to keep me relatively updated in the land outside of Fedora. Decided to <tt>dist-upgrade<\/tt> today, pulling in about 600MB of packages, with lots needing an update. <tt>libxft-dev<\/tt> gave me grief, Debian Bug reports gave me <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=237509\">an answer<\/a> &#8211; ended up just moving the file, and making it all well again. Seems dpkg-divert is borked, so it isn&#8217;t the XSF&#8217;s fault. <\/p>\n<p>More grief though: <tt>acme<\/tt> is now something <tt>gnome<\/tt> requires; <tt>pbbuttonsd\/gtkpbbuttons<\/tt> conflicts with acme, and if its installed, gnome goes away. Not fun. I like gtkpbuttons with its display of increasing or decreasing contrast\/volume values, which acme doesn&#8217;t give me. Why can&#8217;t software not &#8220;conflict&#8221; with each other, and let the user decide which he\/she wants to use? I&#8217;d definitely disable acme&#8230;. if I could. Ideas, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Because oss &#8220;just works&#8221;, and ALSA is a whole bag of bones, getting mplayer to work is fun with a new switch: <tt>-ao oss<\/tt>. 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