[Gllug] Thoughts on the breadth of Free Software

[Richard Turner]

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 14:06 +0200, salsaman wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> >- Sort of the packaging dependency hell prevalent in most
> distributions
> >
> >To expand on the last one, specifically, remove unnecessary
> >dependencies. Should I need to install a CD burning GUI just to view
> >a PostScript file? Not really, no.

<snip>

> Not so easy. I know from experience as a developer. To do so would 
> require an install of each distro, you'd need several machines - or
> at 
> least a machine with all the main distros: suse, redhat, fc, gentoo, 
> mandriva, debian, ubuntu, etc. 

Uh, I think Tet's idea was to pick *one* distro and try to sort-out the
dependency hell on that, and not for every package in that distro - it's
an Herculean task to attempt to do so for all the distros!

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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