Re: .deb dependancy hell

From: Richard Hoskins (rhos_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/28/04

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:32:53 -0500

    Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> writes:

    > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 10:56, Richard Hoskins wrote:
    >> On unstable, i386.
    >>
    >> Kind of reminds me of RPM:

    [...]

    >
    > No... you forget the package management has never been the issue.

    Are you asserting that it doesn't remind me of RPM? I tell you it
    does, and I am the sole authority on what reminds me of RPM. :)

    >
    > RPM == DEB are of nearly equal capacity. It is the Packaging that
    > Debian Uses and the Proper dependency checking it does.
    >

    Yes. Whatever.

    If package A needs package B, and package B needs package A, why in
    the world are they two separate packages?

    But thanks to you and everyone else who pointed me to the solution. 

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