ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 10:02:42 EST 2007


On 2/23/07, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> My translation: "I couldn't figure out a dependency so I went
> deleting system packages without knowing or checking what the
> consequences would be and I didn't know how to recover from that
> point.  That's terribly embarrassing, but rather than ask for advice
> or autodopeslap, I'll make a big frikin' stink and insult a bunch of
> people to appease my ego."
> Sounds like he needs to join a user group.
> I feel sorry for the ubuntu-devel list when he hits his first dpkg
> circular dependency.

  The dependency couldn't be met.  The package maintainer screwed up,
and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available.

-- 
-- Thomas


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