Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You understand my issues Lyvim. And honestly thats sorta what happened to me. :\ I just wanted some apps I knew were buggy to work Damnit. *Sigh* > Case in point: Evolution email client. The version of this app shipped > with LM81 was something like 0.13. Yahoo recently forced all it's users > to SMTP password authentication; Kmail does not support that. > Therefore, I had to change email clients. Evolution was my choice after > some web evaluation, however I did'nt want to go to 0.13, it was too > lacking. I found Evolution version 1.02 in a 586 MDK package, but it > was in the Cooker collection. After attempting install of > evolution-1.0.2-4mdk.i586.rpm, I found that it required the installation > of the following packages: > > libdb3.3-3.3.11-7mdk.i586.rpm > libgal19-0.19-4mdk.i586.rpm > GConf-1.0.8-2mdk.i586.rpm > libGConf1-1.0.8-2mdk.i586.rpm > gtkhtml-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm > libgtkhtml20-1.0.1-3mdk.i586.rpm > libcapplet1-1.5.11-2mdk.i586.rpm > > Since I was desperate, I decided to go through with it. One of these > packages ( I think it was GConf) would not install without breaking some > dependencies to the version of GConf installed with LM81. I forced the > issue, and fortunately everything is still working flawlessly. > Desperate huh? I wasn't quite desperate, just ticked that some apps weren't working as I expected them to. > Now this is just one application. Dependencies are a complicated thing > when you are taking into account a large number of applications. This > is why the Mandrake people are so important; they work the bugs out of > these dependency problems in the next stable distribution. No small > task. That's just one reason why I made a point to subscribe to the > Mandrake club. > Ya well were I not poor I'd subscribe too. :\ Femme
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