On Wed 26 Nov 2008 15:07:01 NZDT +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > Dependency hell isn't caused by the packaging format (RPM vs .deb), > it's caused by the repositories and their (lack of) policies.
Thanks Jim for saying that, it's been my opinion for years. For some reason some distros and a particular packaging format gets all the flac, which is hogwash. It's been always running fine for me, but then I don't add the universe as repo. I've had heaps of trouble on Debian with evaporated packages and, funny, missing dependencies, because someone says add this repo and type silverbullet and all shall be well(TM). Ha ha. The result is exactly what I was expecting for adding "unstable" to the repo list, and is only caused by rubbish repos. Plenty of those for any distro. > It's astounding how many problems people on 64bit architectures seem > to get when they're trying to use codecs and Flash, etc. Sad that the > state of the art is so far behind. We've had 64bit OSs for quite a > while now, and finally we're seeing consumer hardware that actually > needs it (primarily large RAM installs) ... and all we're left with is > this lack of support from the proprietary software crowd. Yes. Linux was 64 bit for how many years now (and how many years longer than the desktop competition)? All can be explained by Joe Doe Microsoftie not needing 4GB RAM, hence you only get Redmond Server in 64bit, and because that doesn't need FlashCoDecSheBang "there's no demand" for 64bit versions of those. And when Linux versions only happen as a side effect, if at all, we're left dry. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
