I am going to go postal

chris319 · 07-02-2003, 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by bigjohn
I can't quite follow why you seem to have so many "dependency problems", maybe I have been lucky, and only had that twice.

I don't know whom your post is directed to, but I'll respond. Much open source software is evolutionary in nature. New, bug-fixed versions are released all the time. Therein lies the rub. Try to update the buggy, two-year-old version of an app that came on your distro CD with the latest and greatest bug-fixed version for a one-way ticket to dependency hell. Go have a look at www.gnucash.org and see how many bug fixes and features have been added since the version that came on your distro CD. Now try to update. Good luck.

RPM is like Mad Cow Disease and the Bubonic plague rolled into one.

bigjohn · 07-10-2003, 03:07 AM

originally quoted by chris319

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"RPM is like Mad Cow Disease and the Bubonic plague rolled into one"

And there's you talking about old versions of things chris319, when surely if you had checked the latest "epidemiological" advice, you would have then used "new variant CJD and SARS" as your analogy!

regards

John