Rahul wrote:
Max Spevack wrote:
Would like to open up a few of these questions for some input from you
guys. This is not a replacement for a larger draft of the answers --
this is just as I work on some of the other questions, here's a few
that I can't answer alone.
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7) Dependency hell
(Score:5, Interesting)
by Tet
The introduction of yum has vastly improved the user experience when
installing software, or updating existing packages. However, it's
brought with it a new kind of dependency hell. For example, if I want
to install a PostScript previewer:
% yum install evince
[...]
Installing:
evince x86_64 0.5.1-3 core 773 k
Installing for dependencies:
nautilus x86_64 2.14.1-1.fc5.1 updates-released 3.9 M
nautilus-cd-burner x86_64 2.14.2-1 updates-released 414 k
In this specific example, we can probably split things up to have a
nautilus-evince sub package but since Evince is linked against the
nautilus extension interface this is not a totally stupid dependency. It
is also of important that Evince is a universal document viewer and not
just a postscript previewer and naturally requires more dependencies.
Bug filed - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202052.
Evince doesnt directly depend on nautilus cd burner FYI.
Rahul
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