As well as the answers Derek gave you there are other reasons.  Debian
is the foundation for _ALL_ porting for XFree86.  XFree86 is only
guaranteed to work on X86, Debian makes it work on 11 different
architectures, stop and think about that for a minute...

The amount of patching and fixes that go into X on Debian is quite
extensive, it requires a LOT of regression testing and
cohttp://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01343.htmlmpatibility testing.  In the case of KDE, it depends on X, that is the only reason it's not in unstable right now.  To get the in-your-face scoop try debian's X strike force page: http://people.debian.org/~branden/

Very good explanation of this subject:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01343.html

Just a warning... Branden Robinson (the Debian X maintainer) gets a lot
of crap about the X packages, and hence he throws it back in everyone's
face (rightly so IMHO) on his page, don't visit the site if you're
easily offended.. :)


On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 07:17, Voltage Spike wrote:
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> On Saturday 20 July 2002 12:21 am, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > All you have to do is ask...
> >
> > For those that donet know you can get XFree86 4.2, Flash, Open Office and
> > many other things as Debian packages.
> >
> > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pc99/debian/kde3.html
> 
> Thanks.  I am quite thrilled that I never deleted my Debian partition so I 
> will try this out later today.  Is there any reason that these packages are 
> not thrown into the unstable branch?
> 
> I had searched through questions asking for KDE3 .deb files in Usenet, but 
> none of the answers suggested the above site.  Is this just a little know 
> secret?
> 
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