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?
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'
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'