Text 4605, 36 rader
Skriven 2005-11-27 09:13:28 av Alan Ianson (1:153/757)
   Kommentar till text 4601 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: Re: Linux questions
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Russell Tiedt wrote to Alan Ianson:

RT>  MK>> Also stinkin' dependancies have gotten far too out of hand.
RT> 
RT>  AI> No choice there, if you want a particular software to run you have
RT>  AI> to get it's dependancies also. Debian seems to handle them quite
RT>  AI> well. I haven't had any dependancy problems for a long time,
RT>  AI> although I'm sure if I played around enough it would happen.
RT> 
RT> Well, take a Debian box (stable), that has been upgraded, since 3.0r0 came 
RT> out
RT> via apt-get update upgrade, and just before 3.1r0 comes out, take it to 
RT> testing/unstable, and you should get at least 3 dependency problems .... 
RT> but
RT> then how long is that 4-5 years ... :-)

Been there many times.. :) Now that I have the BBS back online I
don't think I'll be using testing or unstable on this box, but I
have two others that I play with and don't really mind what happens.
The recent ABI (I don't know what that is) upgrade caused havok
in unstable but I guess that's the plan, to get those kinks worked
out for the stable release.

There is an article in the latest debian news about another rash of
problems with dependancies. Some packages got released before the
dependacies were in the archive, a problem for those who don't
already have them.. ;) That'd be testing or unstable though, I've
not had problems on this box in a long while.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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