Re:The button went RED and he updated. Oops- MIsta
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2006 01:28 AM
Agreed on just about every point. The only thing is that 99.9% of the windows installations (programs being loaded, not the OS) will see the differeing/newer dependacy that is loaded and prompt the user, defaulted to "YES" keep the newer/higher version support file. This is not to say that all installations do this and they do get trashed from time to time.
Suse's YAST seems to do a pretty good job with dependancies, but should allow for this resolution with Y.O.U. updates as well. It complains during normal softare updates through YAST. I guess, they don't know how to handle a non-suse file. Understandable.
Additionally, I think it's worth noting that the YOU updates are security updates. They SHOULD force the use of the bundled dependancies if they are going to "ensure" that the patch is to really fix the problems. Can't validate what you don't know about or haven't tested.
This was very true of the whole MS SP2 update where a large number of major commercial programs TO INCLUDE MS Products all broke installing that major service pack... They got the pass.... Linux is held to the higher standard.... go figure...
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Re:The button went RED and he updated. Oops- MIsta
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2006 01:28 AMSuse's YAST seems to do a pretty good job with dependancies, but should allow for this resolution with Y.O.U. updates as well. It complains during normal softare updates through YAST. I guess, they don't know how to handle a non-suse file. Understandable.
Additionally, I think it's worth noting that the YOU updates are security updates. They SHOULD force the use of the bundled dependancies if they are going to "ensure" that the patch is to really fix the problems. Can't validate what you don't know about or haven't tested.
This was very true of the whole MS SP2 update where a large number of major commercial programs TO INCLUDE MS Products all broke installing that major service pack... They got the pass.... Linux is held to the higher standard.... go figure...
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