Larry Stotler said the following on 05/08/2011 04:06 PM:
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Anton Aylward
wrote: Its not the 'patterns' that Carl Hartung speaks of, so much as amount of stuff that is hardwired in. Its like pulling at a loose thread on your jumper. You end up with something other than what you actualy wanted.
SuSE has always had an issue with dependency hell. It gets better and then it gets worse.
Its not just the RPM-level dependencies, although as this thread has mentioned, some of them are arbitrary. Its the code-level linkages. If it wasn't for the excellent support this list offers (don't get me started about Ubuntu!) I'd have given up on openSuse long ago. -- "Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest." -- Calvin Coolidge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org