Christian Seberino wrote:
On Tue, June 26, 2007 4:37 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Ubuntu, even after I install the development uberpackage, *still* winds
up having a ton of dependencies that I have to chase down to do serious
development.
I'm not sure what you mean by chasing down dependencies when you have
apt-get. If you are not able to see certain packages you want available
then allow "Universe". Done. What is the problem?
All The World Is Windows(tm).
You would think given how they suffered from Microsoft, Linux people
would be a little more reluctant to inflict the same syndrome.
All the world is not Linux, nor is all the world apt-get, rpm, etc.
Some of us occasionally have to use this quaint, old-fashioned method
called "Compiling From Source Code".
Reasons for being afflicted with this disease include:
A) Crap repositories
B) Crap package maintainers
C) Ancient package versions
D) Avoiding breakage when Farty Fsckup upgrades to Gimpy Goober
E) Having, like, omygawd, a network with real Unix machines, too
F) Needing a *specific* version of some tool
Unfortunately, most source code for *nix is now only ever compiled for
Linux machines which include the universe and have a boatload of
unspecified dependencies. Of course, this code looks around, goes "Ooo,
I'm on Linux. I don't have to worry about dependencies because I have
everything" and promptly chokes under Ubuntu (which, mercifully,
*doesn't* install Life, The Universe, and Everything by default).
The developer uberpackage on Ubuntu seems to miss quite a lot stuff
required to actually compile things from source.
-a
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