Linux on Dell laptop?

[Sina Bahram]

You pointed out circular dependancies...but aren't they smart enough to not
do this? I've only done simple programming, and even I put the following
lines in my header files

$ifndef FILE_H
#define FILE_H
My code
#endif

*shrug* isn't there some kind of mechanism like that for rpms?

Take care,
Sina

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Subject: Re: Linux on Dell laptop?


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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.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, 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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