> > > How odd. I've been running gentoo for a year on my laptop. It's always > worked perfectly for me, whatever I've installed (not geda though). The > only distribution I've tried that has never caused me dependency problems, > where everything works first time, and where I always have fairly > up-to-date versions of everything. How is that people can have such > different experiences (for example, debian has been a nightmare for me > since I want up-to-date-ish versions of some packages, while I know other > people who say debian never gives them any trouble). Is it just that some > people invest more time in learning the details of package management for > their distribution than others? Or is it just luck?
I think it is because the bugs are dependent on circumstances, and they are different in each particular installation. Cl<
