Re: [DNG] dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > I have been using my version of simple-netaid since Devuan's > inception. Has anyone ever made simple-netaid part of Devuan? -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org ht

[DNG] dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-12 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Steve Litt wrote: "Unfortunately, these guys weren't unusual. Way too many programmers, in the name of avoiding reinventing the wheel, integrate somebody else's wheel, when all they needed was an easily available single spoke. You know who suffers? The distro maintainers and the users." That is pr

Re: [DNG] dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

2019-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:05:24 +0300 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved > my problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam. [snip successful attempts using a ~10 step apt/dpkg witch's brew] I feel your pain. Probably we all do. And