Anyhow, the various sources of rpm's, like redhat, or slackware, or maybe a half-dozen or more biggies, all have lists of dependencies they claim for any particular package.[ snip description of RPM-hell ]
The main reason Fink avoids this is because there's a central repository--if something's in Fink cvs, it's been checked to work with Fink. If you try out Debian, you'll see it works more or less like Fink, at least as far as having everything work together without RPM hell.
On Linux, your best bet is usually to stick mainly to things designed for your distro specifically, if you don't want RPM-hell. FreshRPMs.net is pretty good for RPMs designed to work with Yellow Dog. Just don't use RPMs designed for a distro that's not the one you're running. :-)
But frankly, if you want Fink-for-Linux, Debian's probably your best bet.
Dave
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