To summarize. The problem is DLL hell and how package managers deal with multiple versions of share libraries (can you install libtiff-1 and libtiff-2 simultaniously?). These are solvable problems. I must say, though, that with nice repositories specific to my distro out there, I rarely have to install anything not packaged for FC3 for example. apt- get works week.
Michael
Why aren't all the dependencies packaged with the source? This would seem to be a good solution to me. Maybe back in the day when Internet connections were slow it made sense to separate things, but now with high speed they could at LEAST give you an option to download a file that has the dependencies included.
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