On Wednesday 19 September 2001 15:41, Jim Dawson wrote:
> > It's such a problem that
> > evidently XP has given up on the shared DLLs and each app will now have
> > them in their own folder.
>
> My guess is that Bill Gates owns quite a bit of stock in companies that
> make hard drives.
and RAM c
I agree 100%. I was simply trying to point out that auto-updating
dependencies would create the problems that Window$ has. To solve a real
problem (incompatible DLLs), Microsoft has opted to go the hardware route --
hard drives are cheap. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem,
a
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:21:10 -0500, Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I know dependencies are a pain, but so is Windows when some program being
> install takes it upon itself to update various DLLs that a new app needs, but
> breaks existing apps in the process. It's such a problem t
th dependencies at all.
> just some thoughts..
>
>
> rgds
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 3:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a related question; is there no "uninstall" (not talking about
rpms)? A lot of the apps I have installed (./configure;make;make install)
have a "make uninstall", but that means that you have to untar/gunzip the
package again if/when you want to uninstall it; Has there ever been any
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 04:16, Franki wrote:
> I think two other things would help,. a gui and console tool that does smart
> tarball installs and updates the rpm database for that app, and one that can
> get dependencies for you,, (goes to a mandrake update site list...etc etc.
> or asks for the CD
ED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 3:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies
Frankly - I am rather frustrated with the issues of dependencies.
Almost each time I try to install an rpm file, or compile a tar.gz, I get a
failed/miss
Frankly - I am rather frustrated with the issues of dependencies.
Almost each time I try to install an rpm file, or compile a tar.gz, I get a
failed/missing dependencies error. I was told that this is "just as in
Windows in which programs need dlls". This is simply not true. When a
Win32 de
