On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> The biggest complaint about RPM today is "dependency hell". It's
> infamous enough that it's instantly recognizable like "blue screen of
> death." Dependency hell is not a bug. It's a feature. Seriously. This is
> RPM doing its job. It's letting you know that a package requires certain
> versions of libraries or needs other packages to work correctly. Imagine
> if it didn't do this checking (i.e., you ran a tarball based
> installation with requirements on system libraries). The program may run
> for a while but then you may get a weird bug. Because the program seems
> to run you start looking at other things. Maybe you spend time
> diagnosing the system itself, maybe even delve into the code. Believe
> me, you want the package manager to warn if version dependencies are not
> met.
My biggest complaint about RPM is that, when I try to install some program
and it says that I need foolib-3.0, that's fine. But it says squat about
an installed foolib-2.5, so I end up with multiple versions of foolib
installed.
And I don't know of a way to check for installed packages on which nothing
depends, but that's probably an ID=10t error.
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