On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:23:55PM -0000, dbneeley wrote: > The standard application manager for Kubuntu is KPackageKit, which I abor. > > As for RPM, please someone correct me if I'm wrong--but last I heard the RPM > resource database kept on your system lacks sufficient discrimination when it > comes to required dependencies--that was originally a major reason it was to > be completely rewritten. Has this been done? >
Yum, the front end for rpm, (I don't know about the GUI package managers) has handled this quite well for a long time. > Regardless of the front end used, if installing a new app creates dependency > issues for ones already installed, that would seem a very bad idea...and > before I went to Debian-based distros, that happened to me more than once on > both SuSE and Red Hat. Has this been fixed? > I've not run into it, which may, of course, only mean it's fixed on the packages I use. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Wesley: Wait for Faith. Buffy: That could be hours. The girl makes Godot look punctual. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
