No one is compelling a debian/ubuntu user to install packages from repo. He/she can still compile things from source.
Regarding slackware , It is something like a vehicle which doesn't have any horn , so it will not make noise when it is required and when it is not required ;) On 2 March 2012 16:30, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Basil Kurian <[email protected]> > wrote: > > He he > > > > I 'm also was screwed several times by dependency hell s , not just in > > fedora. > > > > If I remember right , installing mdadm on debian and ubuntu will add > postfix > > as dependency. Some small portion of users may want the integration > between > > mdadm and postfix to get notified by mail when a member in a raid array > > fails. But I can't justify adding postfix as a dependency to install > mdadm. > > > > That can be put up with atleast if dependencies don't break and > configuration is done correctly by debconf. > It doesn't happen anymore in debian/ubuntu. I am losing hopes on them too. > Good old slackware days :-) > > --Siju > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- Regards Basil
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