Re: machine

From: Ohmster (ohmster_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:46:10 GMT

+Cibao+ <Cibao@softhome.net> wrote in news:slrnbo6n0p.lgo.Cibao@raven.home:

> True enough, but you'll also get all that nasty RPM ickyness, not to
> mention the equally unpleasant SysVInit processes. =P

Question: How do you update major and minor "packages" then without rpm
managment like with slackware? I use Redhat 9 and use up2date or apt-synaptic
to get my system updated. I tried to update mozilla without using a manager
and downloaded all the mozilla rpm files and tried "rpm -Uvh mozilla*" and it
still would not work that way, more dependancy issues. When I tried to update
kde with apt and synaptic, eveytime I wanted to install something, something
else had to get uninstalled, so I forced it. Broke the hell out of gnome
after that, no sound and could not log into any gnome session anymore, as any
user. Updated to RH9 to fix it.

So how do you update major stuff on slackware if you do everything by
compiling from source? Don't the libs and different softwares fight with each
other and break each other? 

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~Ohmster