On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:37:37PM -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Michael L Torrie wrote: > >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.
Bloat. Instead, use software like yum or apt to handle dependencies. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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