Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Apr 2003 18:00 UTC
Red Hat 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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Re: Aran
by Darius on Thu 10th Apr 2003 19:54 UTC

Why does everyone seem to think you should be able to install software without dealing with dependancies?

Um, because it's possible to do in other operating systems? I say if they are dependency issues, they should be dealt with by the package manager, NOT by the user.
A better solution (as far as RPM goes) is to tell me what packages EXACTLY I need to install, isntead of simply 'cannot find lib123xyzgoscrewyourself.so.whatever'