-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Lohmaier wrote: > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, one single > "Distributor".
This comparison is shit. > But on windows you can basically get every software from any vendor. If > it is labeled "runs on windows XP", you can be pretty sure that it runs > (despite the bugs it might have). Just because they either are statically linked or ship every lib they need because of the DLL-hell. wow. > Now try to apply this to linux distributions. Get a package for SuSE and > try to install that on Redhat. At best you can use --nodeps to ignore > the different naming-schemes of the packages and it will run. > But using switches to bypass deps or other things surely is not the best > way on how a package management tool should work. Well, your problem if you try to do that... > The situation gets worse with older installations. There is no "linux > version X" label you could specify. It most likely is "You need version > X of glibc" (that is the reason why I cannot use most of the precompiled > stuff that is offered, my version is just too old), "furthermore you Which ancient stuff do you use? In any case, yes, then you need either build it yourself or upgrade. (Or install the new lib, which arguably in case of libc is not a good idea) > need $foo and $bar". $foo and $bar themselves require other packages or > worse conflict with other packages. (think of sound-severs, > desktop-environments,....) Sounds like a bug to me if packages for GNOME e.g. conflict against KDE... Regards, Rene -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoREi+FmQsCSK63MRAqJYAJ9ums4YCTi+z64xIm6zattmDP9WcgCfZkiV feYGOAiQtwRzNbSLoYHAmCc= =iaHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
