That means you either have out of date software on your system (with potential security holes) or you do the reinstall dance at least once a year.
Those RPM dependencies are valuable, because they keep you from putting your system in a half-working state. The dependencies can easily be handled by apt|yum|yast|urpmi.
If you are unable to see the advantages of a PM, look at it this way: If nearly every distro uses a PM, what makes your situation so special that you should not use one?
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Posted by: JelleB on July 24, 2005 11:30 PMThose RPM dependencies are valuable, because they keep you from putting your system in a half-working state. The dependencies can easily be handled by apt|yum|yast|urpmi.
If you are unable to see the advantages of a PM, look at it this way: If nearly every distro uses a PM, what makes your situation so special that you should not use one?
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