Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 21, 2005 11:19 PM
One case in which you have limited options for recovering the system is when you are installing unofficial<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.deb packages from a third party, instead of from a Debian-approved source. Although more free and open source software (FOSS) projects provide Debian packages than they did five years ago, too often they build them without dependencies calculated. That leaves users in the same dependency hell that RPM users had to endure in the bad old days before Yum and apt4rpm
Get real! "Testing" and "unstable" care so called for a reason. RPM based distro have the (well-named) "RPM hell" with their so-called (or not) "stable" (or wannabe stable) releases.
Also, Debian has 15000+ packages to choose from. But if you go fishing for the "15001st" one you have to be willing to cope with the consequences.
The question should be:
How often have you seen the 15000+ stable packages have dependencies problems?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 21, 2005 11:19 PMGet real! "Testing" and "unstable" care so called for a reason. RPM based distro have the (well-named) "RPM hell" with their so-called (or not) "stable" (or wannabe stable) releases.
Also, Debian has 15000+ packages to choose from. But if you go fishing for the "15001st" one you have to be willing to cope with the consequences.
The question should be:
How often have you seen the 15000+ stable packages have dependencies problems?
And the answer is obvious!
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