Hi Rene, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > That is as getting all your software from Microsoft, one single > > "Distributor". > > This comparison is shit.
Starts great. > > 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. That doesn't matter. > > 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... Hello? May I remind you of what this side-part of the discussion is about? > [...] > > 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... Yeah - the old "pick *parts* of a statement and make whitty comments about it" tactic. The desktop-environments was related to the need $foo that in turn requires another.... part, not on the conflicts one. ciao Christian -- NP: Silverchair - Shade --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
