Aaron Toponce wrote: > I will say, that I find it rather amusing that "yum" comes from another > operating system, not Red Hat. Odd that an "enterprise" operating system > will rely on 3rd party utilities to solve their problems, including > their own package resolver "up2date". I guess that's what the community > is all about though, right? :)
Enterprise is about best of bread software. Apt is also available for rpm, but after yum became mainstream no one seems to use it, I think perhaps because it didn't deal with with hybrid 32-bit and 64-bit systems. /me shrugs. > Personally, I've never discovered dependency hell with Debian. I did > with Red Hat. Before Red Hat shipped RHEL, and before they released > up2date, getting software on a Red Hat system was a nightmare. Making > sure your libraries were the right versions, making sure you didn't have > conflicts, chasing down dependencies with the right versions for what > you were installing... I saw no need to run a Linux operating system, > when Windows software had all the dependencies in the executable, and > installing was as simple as a double-click. Yes they were dark days. When RHEL came up with up2date it was alright, but yum turned out even better. > On both my RHEL servers and my Fedora virtual machine, I occasionally > come across packages that Yum can't resolve. I know others who have had > this problem as well. On Debian unstable only, I will have a package > every once in a while fail to install, because some version that the > package is looking for is either missing or not up-to-date. Right now, > it's "sagemath". I've never experienced any dependency issues with > testing or stable though. Yeah problems invariably arise on all the packaging systems. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
