Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:07 UTC
"rPath's Conary is a second-generation package manager. Considering that Erik Troan, rPath's CTO and co-founder, was one of the original authors of the RPM package format, some might be tempted to view Conary as an effort to do things right the second time around - nor is that view far from wrong. In its design, Conary is a streamlined version of dpkg or RPM with Yum in which all the utilities of those package managers are combined in a single command and combined with version control to meet the demands of a modern distribution."
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2005-07-24
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And on what planet would that be?
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I work a great deal with systems running Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu. And I must say that for the last several years I have been a bit puzzled when people start going on about dependency hell. Sure, there are a lot of interdependencies, but the package managers handle it so well these days that I rarely have to pay attention.
In particular, with Ubuntu it sometimes seems as though all I have to do is *wish* a package onto a system and it's there.
In fact, I went to install a third party package with gdebi (mozilla plugin) the other day, and even gdebi worked out that another package was needed and offered to install it.
Anyone who is still having dependency problems (if such people actually exist) needs to write some stern words to their distro's maintainers or find a distro that isn't stuck in the 90's.