In message <td22m.1717$8r....@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2009-06-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> > wrote: >> Sounds more like broken OS with no integrated package management. > > Package managers with dependency tracking were all the rage when I first > started using Linux. So I tried Red Hat and everything worked great until > the depency database corrupted itself. I have been using and administering various flavours of Linux--Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake (before it was Mandriva), Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu--over about the last decade, and I have NEVER seen this mythical dependency database corruption of which you speak. If you thought they were "all the rage" before, they're pretty much mandatory now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
