RPM installation on KDE

[Matthew Vanecek]

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On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:30, Bill Wisse wrote:
> Andrew have you got Gnome installed on your computer?
>=20
> Maybe some of those dependencies are already taken care of if you install=
=20
> Gnome.
>=20
> I have Gnucash 1.6.6 installed on SuSE 8.1 (rpm) and no dependecie proble=
ms.
> However if I want to install a later version of Gnucash I have the depend=
ecie=20
> problems as well so I leave it because 1.6.6 works just fine.
>=20
> I just wonder who makes those RPM's?
> IIMHO a RPM of a stable version should include all the dependencies neede=
d.
>=20

This has been discussed before.  The reason RPM spits out those error
message is so that you know what is missing, and can install it.  If
packages included all dependencies, you would have an ungodly mess on
your hands, and conflicts aplenty.  Packages would try to overwrite
files other packages installed, without version checking.  Where would
you draw the line?  The kernel? The C library?  Personally, I thank God
for the dependency checking and the current setup.  Many's the time I've
installed a Windows app only to discover it automagically installed a
DirectX that was 3 versions too old, or overwrote msvcrt.dll, or a VB
dll.

One of the difficulties, which I acknowledge can be frustrating, is that
rpm tells you what library is missing, but not the package that library
lives in.  Perhaps you could file an RFE with the RPM developers...

> Bill

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