Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Apr 2003 17:10 UTC
Today, Red Hat Linux 9 has been "officially" released to the masses via the FTP servers, and we host here a mini-interview with Matt Wilson, Manager, Base Operating Systems at Red Hat, Inc.
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dependency hell from RPMs is a load of Bull$h!t, i have compiled software from sourcecode and on occasion (not very often) the sourcecode will not compile because of depencency problems, Linux does not care what type of install you do, it is just that some software depends on other software in order to function properly...
apt-get does a pretty good job of resolving dependencys and finds/downloads/installs the dependant packages, and gcc will make a list of library files that are needed in order for the sourcecode to sucesfully compile/make/install, one is more automated & the other just leaves it up to you to find & install the needed files...