[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[John Heim]

From: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com>
To: ale at ale.org
> The comment about dependency hell was a reference to what occurred
> before yum - one would try to install an rpm only to be told they needed
> another rpm which in turn would require another and so on.  Yum on the
> other hand will let you pick the package you're interested in and find
> the dependencies needed to install it on YOUR system and install those
> at the same time.

I think the reference is actually to the circular dependencies problem that 
used to be so common. I switched from Red Hat to debian a few years ago. But 
you used to get a situation where package A would depend on B and B would 
depnd on C and C would depend on A. Supposedly you could force it to install 
A which would break the loop. But that didn't always work.

Friends of mine tell me that never happens any more. Besides, it can happen 
in debian apt too. It's funny because when I first switched to debian, I had 
way fewer problems with apt than I have had recently. Try upgrading from 
sarge to etch, it is very difficult.

> are superior to Fedora I'll just ask "Then why does Linus Torvalds run
> Fedora?".  I'll get all sorts of OPINIONS which aren't any better than
> mine but will have the satisfaction of knowing that the guy that started
> it all agrees with me.

Okay, girly-man. If you want to run a "non technical" distro. That's what 
Linus said, after all. He doesn't touch the technical or compile everything 
distros.
 :-)