On 2009-06-30, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:16:02 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message <td22m.1717$8r....@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Tim Harig wrote: >>> 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. > Really? I've seen it, or at least something that looks like it if you > squint. In my experience, it can usually be fixed by: > yum clean all
Yum wasn't available then and I have never used it. Maybe it does a better job these days. I don't know. I get along fine without it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
