On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:01:10 +0100, hugo@??? said:
> > But one thing I don't understand is the differences between the actual
> > package format that causes the dependency hell.
>
> Nothing. It's all down to the tooling.
I think there's slightly more to it than that. Although both Fedora and
RedHat are much better than they used to be, Debian still has
significantly more packages in the standard repositories. The result of
that is that- usually - one can install the package one wants without
leaving those repositories. In the past, it was much more common to have to
trawl the net for the .rpm one wanted. Once you've installed something
that's off-base, you open yourself up for dependency hell.
(Yes, this is a generalisation).
--
Keith Edmunds
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