Re: Debian and Japanese from a Debian Developer

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <che@example.com> writes:

    Ben> KDE is not exactly usable in testing or frozen, unfortunately.

And under what circumstances is KDE use_ful_?  ;-)

    Ben> Unstable is much more useful, if you are lucky enough to get
    Ben> it on a good day. :)

And then never upgrade it....

    Ben> Yes, that's true. I just wish stable were usable with
    Ben> Japanese input, but it's still not there. Frozen and testing
    Ben> are not a lot better, but are a step in the right direcction.

Hm.  Maybe they're not useful out of the box.  I got started with
Japanese on Debian back when Debian-JP was the absolute worst thing
about Debian, so Just Say No to anything that tries to touch /etc has
been my rule for years.  Ain't broke, so I ain't lettin' YOU touch it!

And I don't much get out of the XEmacs cocoon these days, where all
things are either easy, or can be made so with application of a
sufficiently large collection of balanced parentheses.  ;-)

One could always try putting

deb-src ... unstable main contrib non-free

in sources.list and then using apt-get source --build canna (etc etc)
on them.  This would probably not be too much more fun than trying to
install X from a directory full of RPMs using only rpm and a box of
toothpicks, though.  :-)


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