Hi, That is not nonsense. I used to have Mandrake 8 running on one of my computers and it sure as hell was dependency hell. Even with Mandrake's own RPMs for Mandrake 8, I sometimes was unable to install software because of
- unmet dependencies: libraries could not be found even though they were installed - version conflicts: the package required library X version > 2.4.2 but I had installed library X v. 2.4.3 or 2.4.2-1 and clearly... meh, you see where this is goign - verion conflicts: the package required other packages to be installed that were either not available on the Mandrake CD-ROMs or the Mandrake FTP-Server or once again, that dreaded version conflict hit me It was even worse when trying to avoid RPM dependency hell and compiling software from scratch - again I was facing dependency issues (could not find the library in /usr/lib even though it was there) or version conflicts (2.4.2 vs. 2.4.2-1). Something always happened and kept me from installing new software until some day, I finally had it up to here *holding hand over head* and got rid of any RPM based distributions. But even today, I'm still running some. Since Debian-AMD64 is not available yet, I'm running RedHat-AMD64, Mandrake-AMD64 and SuSE-AMD64 along with Debian unstable on my Opteron and once again, dependency hell 24/7. They're all great (except for maybe SuSE, I don't really like YaST2 or their "idea" of Linux) as long as one does not have to install any additional software. MJ On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:33, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Gak! And send him into Dependency Hell? > > That's nonsense. People like to throw that crap out, but users cause it > for themselves when they install RPM's from random places, same as Debian > users cause it for themselves when they install DEB's from random places. > > Not that I recommend DeadRat to anyone, but Joe User isn't going to be > going to rpmfind.net or anywhere else and installing random junk. > > -- > Marc Wilson | If there was any justice in the world, "trust" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | would be a four-letter word. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
