On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:14:27PM -0500, Ron DuFresne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Those do not make alot of difference, the key is not to accept any of the > > defaults by any of these dists, pick and choose carefully which > > individual packages you install. I know redhat has dependancy hell with > > various packages, from the experience of trying to do as minimal as > > possible an install for a webhost while migrating from sunone on solaris > > to > > apache/redhat on the mainframe awhile back. I do not doubt that some of > > these additional dists are wraught with the same issues. But, I do know > > that slackware's installation process has the ability for one to do > > finegrained installs and to determine specifically individual packages > > from each package set. > > Just because slack does not prevent one from installing or not, whatever > packages one chooses does not mean there is no dependency issues. They > are there and they will break things.
True, but this does not address the issue that there are _really_stupid_ dependencies to be found if you look around. Things that make only sense in special circumstances. I know of no example offhand, but I mean along the lines of <a package with a web frontend has netscape as dependency>, <a networksniffer needs libOpenGL> and such obviously flawed packages. (I mean, just the fact that a networksniffer has a GUI in addition to commandline use, and that some functions in that GUI require openGL shouldn't be a large enough reason to put a hard dependency on OpenGL. Right? ) I remember well that at one time I wanted to install a SuSE system without X, and just one package triggered 4 other packages and those then triggered the full X eventually. It really was a pain. Mind you, that was a few years back, I get the distinct impression things have changed for the better now. Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
