This isn't the comedy club.  We are talking about adding software on rpm
aren't we?


Larry S. Brown
Dimension Networks, Inc.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: RPM dependency hell

Red Hat listened...it's called "up2date"...it takes care of
downloading/installing the dependencies for you.

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, j_post wrote:

> I'm getting really tired of Red Hat's RPM nonsense. I can't upgrade
> *anything* because rpm complains about dependencies. I can understand that
a
> new version of program 'xyz' may need library 'libabc-2.3.so', but rpm
> refuses to upgrade because program 'abc-1.2' depends on 'libabc-1.2.so'
and
> can't seem to deal with 'libabc-2.3.so'. Why not???
>
> Red Hat, are you listening???
>
> It's simple: if a program requires a given version of a library, it should
be
> happy with any higher version of that library. Is that difficult to deal
> with? I don't think so.
>
> Maybe it's time to move on to Debian--and sell my Red Hat stock.
>
> *Frustrated beyond belief*
>
>
>
>

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