On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 05:48:34PM -0500, Roy Murphy wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:08:27 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not really a good sales pitch - any distribution that DOESN'T > > handle dependencies well these days isn't worth the CD it comes on. > > No distribution really does dependencies well. Let's say some third > party developer targets FC3 and sets his dependencies to the version > numbers in FC3. Some user somewhere running FC2 wants to install it > and there are major dependency version clashes. Does that mean the > package *won't* work on FC2? Maybe, maybe not. The package may not > actually use features new to the latest version.
That's only an issue when an FC2 -> FC3 upgrade is a major undertaking. It shouldn't be and I don't understand why you would tolerate that. All Debian upgrades consist of 'apt-get' to newer versions of individual packages; you are never required to reinstall, and a reinstall is never easier. So if you use third party packages which require newer base packages, apt-get will fetch those for you. No big deal. For those who aren't aware, apt-get is a Debian program originally. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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