Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Apr 2003 18:00 UTC
The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.
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Why does everyone seem to think you should be able to install software without dealing with dependancies? Complex software has complex dependancies... RPM tries to deal with that by identifying those dependancies at the outset. What's the point of installing an application that won't work because of a lack of a criticial library?
What's the other solution? Include a version of every library needed by that app inside the RPM? Are you serious? What is needed are better tools to deal with locating packages to match the required dependancies. apt and synaptic for RedHat9 seem to go a long way towards it my mind. Now, if only RH would get with the program and include it by default.
I'm not saying RH9 or Linux doesn't need help in this regard or is perfect. I'm only saying that dependancies are a FEATURE and keep you from installing software that WILL NOT RUN without additional libraries or packages.
Why is that so hard to understand?