| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Well as far as I can tell every major linux distribution has got it right, | and the issue mainly seems to happen on windows where apparently people | can't get anything right.
If I had to guess, Evan's problem (the one that started this thread) stems from a software package that hasn't been updated in some time and no longer matches what the distro provides. Packages bit-rot. One can do things to reduce this effect but it can hardly be eliminated. Sometimes a package is smart enough to refuse to install when its requrements are not met. But users aren't happy. How many screw-heads have been mangled my impatient users with to wrong screwdriver? Speaking of bit-rot, ... I recently bought a scanner from CZUR because it was to support Linux. Well, they only supplied a binary .deb package. This is a problem: - .deb won't work on my Fedora system - "alien" won't turn it into a .rpm - after a few queries, CZUR support sent me an RPM - the RPM elicits error from dnf on my system - CZUR support says to use "dnf --force". I haven't tried yet. This solution is going to suffer bit-rot. It was a mistake thinking that this scanner supports Linux in a meaningful way. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
