Linux on Dell laptop?

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Fri, Jul 16 2004 at 08:06:58PM -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> I'm a bit confused...aren't rpms and so on designed to help out the user
> rather than cause problems. And aren't dependancies a good thing...if
> something is truly dependant upon something else....i'm just a bit confused
> here.

Rpm's and other forms of packages are good things, but rpm's have been
notorious for getting into trouble with dependencies. For example
circular dependencies where package x depends on package y which depends
on package z which depends on package x. This problem is much less
prevalent in current versions of Fedora withthe stock packages.

Best tip IMHO is to get apt4rpm and let it manage all the dependency
mess for you. I suppose yam also works but I don't know anything about
it.

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by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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