begin quoting Todd Walton as of Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:48:34PM -0800: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:57:20 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > begin quoting Todd Walton as of Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:10:01PM -0800: > > > > > > I haven't had a dependencies problem for some four years now. > > > > Full installs? > > What do you mean? Most of the "no dependency" situations seem to be "let's install everything", just in case. I find it philosophically objectionable to _rely_ on that, as a developer, even if it may appear to be the prudent course as a user.
> Unlike many of you, I am not a programmer. The majority of my > compiling is done via Portage, so someone else has handled the > dependencies issues, if any. Ah. Gentoo, then, I presume. The dependency issue doesn't go away, it just gets hidden. > Any compiling I do myself is for novelty > programs that generally don't require many dependencies, and when they > do I've never had much problem. The last program I had to compile > myself was Alexandria. My biggest problem with that was figuring out > which programs in Portage provided the libraries called for by the > Alexandria developers. Why did they not ship the libraries with the product, or make them available to you? > The most significant dependency issue I've had recently is that K3B > requires an older version of transcode in order to be able to rip > DVDs. That sucks, since I already have a newer version, and it's > being used by other programs. But all I had to do was install the > older version. That's just wrong. A newer version should always be Good Enough. > Your Mileage Does Vary, apparently. Those who choose to avoid the ruts get a bumpier ride. -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
