on 10/31/2007 7:15 AM, Ingemar Nilsson wrote: > Paul Lemmons wrote: > >> Just so you know, though, unless you use something like yum or portage >> or apt-get you will always be dealing with dependency problems. I would >> also add that regardless of distribution any given program will have >> pretty much the same dependencies. > > One mistake that many people do is that they compare rpm with apt, > coming down on rpm for not automatically managing dependencies like apt > while never even mentioning yum. They then conclude that Fedora sucks > becuase it has such an archaic package management system that cannot > even automatically download and install dependencies. > > For some reason, many people are completely unaware of yum, while > heavily criticizing Fedora for its use of rpm and the allegedly > accompanying "dependency hell". Lovingly referred to as PEBKAC. ;-) -- David
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