On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:22 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> [08-14-05 15:16]:
This is the exact reason I stopped using apt-get, many packages are placed in the repositories with out the supporting deps. This leaves the person trying to install the package searching for the elusive dep and banging their head on the wall when they can't find it. Don't get me wrong, apt-get is great when -all- the required packages are available for install.
But this is *not* a failure of apt, you could not install the rpm without "-force" with any system. Apt is merely an application to handle rpm packages. The rpm package is broken by requiring something not available, not the package handler.
Exactly, the packager is the one at fault -not- the apt-get program. Too many packagers are placing packages in the repositories without making sure the the dependencies are also placed in the repositories for install. This makes apt-get look bad even though it is a good program. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998