Apt dependency hell

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Wed Nov 29 13:26:36 EST 2006


On 11/29/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:
>
> > <humor>
> >
> > I thought apt wasn't suseptible to RPM dependency hell?  At least that
> > what all the Debian people have been telling RedHat users for years.
>
> They lied and you believed them ;)
>
> > </humor>

I'm a sysadmin.  Empirical evidence in practice trumps theory/documentation.

> Those people have never mixed a system together from stable/testing/unstable :)
>
> > Multiple repositories have finally come to Debian.
>
> Debian has had them for years :)

I think they've done a better job in the past then RPM based systems.
Of course, there's RedHat RPMs, SuSE RPMs, Mandriva RPMs, and Fedora
RPMs.  Having yum, etc to wrap them helps them catch up with the
coherency of Debian based systems.

I suspect *ubuntu/knoppix will test that coherency in the future.

>
> Try using aptitude install foo. I find that aptitude seems to do a
> better job of "fixing" things than apt-get.

Different mechanisms/algorithyms?  What about synaptic?  Hmmm


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