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.