Re: how to install with no extra packages

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
houghi wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
[...]
Some software depends on other software, so you have to select either
both or neither. The reason is that otherwise the selections you made
won't work anyway.
What houghi just described is the Curse of Unix. :*D

Why? I think it is a blessing. Say you have two programs. And they each
need a third program to run. If you don't install those two, you won't
install numver three.

The problem these days though is that you don't have 2 programs using 1
other program, but rather you have 1 program using 10 others, which in
turn are using other programs.

Well, rather there are 200 programs that need 10. So yes, for one
program it would seem bad, but if you look at the bigger picture it
makes sence. Also only very few people are disturbed by the fact that if
you select one program, many others are selected as well.

The only reason to be concerned is space on your HD and with prices are
what they are, it is a non issue and certainly not a curse of Unix.

And that's why SuSE doesn't offer major package upgrades; if one of
those 10 breaks, the chain could fall apart and spit fire. It was
simpler back then, with no updates and all. Nowadays, we get a new KDE
version each week :P

Yes and no. Not doing official upgrades is a lot easier to support. It
also makes it more difficult because of the various versions you need to
maintain when you look at 5 years support.

(Yes, yes, I know, I don't *HAVE* to upgrade. But I want to :P)

Luckily SUSE makes this very easy for you. You point to a repository and
upgrade. The 'curse' will take of all the rest. The alternative is to
compile it yourself and then you will probably end in dependency hell,
something that SUSE has solved for you.

houghi
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