Re: A Linux Newbie's Main Issue With Linux

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 16:59, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:38, Bill Wisse wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:01, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >
> >  Sorry, I disagree with that. IMVHO dependency problems have nothing to
> > do with RPM's per se. It is a Linux annoyance.
> > If a dependency problem excist it will come up when using RPM but ALSO
> > when you using TAR.
>
> Yes!  Thank you.  I am so tired of hearing about rpm dependency hell.  I
> have run into pkgadd dependency hell in Solaris if I did not get all
> deps on something from solarisfreeware (download it and the deps and
> only grab the app pkg when I got to install for example).
>

>
> Am I the only that sees the logic with this?
  
Maybe you are :-)

Let me point this out first. I'm a very satisfied user of SuSE (8.2). And all 
the annoyances with Linux mean nothing to me if I compare it with my friend's 
M$ XP. He spend the whole weekend to get rid of that Blaster virus!!!!!!!!

Back to Linux (rpm) and dependencies.
When I buy my SuSE cdrom's ( with RPM's) there is NOT one dependency problem!
If it can work for all those programs together, why can't it work for one 
single program?
Or am I shortsighted?

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/bill at 169 west , 19 south.  

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