F-Spot

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Mar 13 17:46:16 UTC 2007


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 11/03/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:31:09AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > I see that the newest F-Spot, 0.3.5, is available in Rawhide. Would it
>> > be unwise for me to temporarily enable the rawhide repos to install
>> > this package? Or would I be better off just building from the tarball
>> > (or SVN)? Any other options?
>>
>> How stable do you want your system to be? I've been running rawhide on my
>> desktop for a long time now, and if you don't mind occasionally having to
>> diagnose a problem like "hey, the kernel doesn't boot now" or "my
>> gnome-terminals hang whenver I switch desktops", it works great. :)
>>
> 
> Now that I have a lappy the box in question is mainly for the wife's
> usage. So it must be relatively stable. I'll be performing the updates
> (not automatic) so I'll be there if something goes wrong. It's not a
> production machine or anything.
> 
> I'd consider Rawhide if there were a lot of new features, but not for
> just F-Spot. I'll build from SVN.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen

If your wife is like mine, then this machine has higher requirements 
than any production machine.  I get slapped across the head when 
something goes wrong with my wifes machine.  :)

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