RPM installation on KDE

[Bill Wisse]

Matthew

I didn't know this was discussed before because I only started using Gnucas=
h a=20
month ago.
Forced by the disapparence of Moneydance.
I see what you mean by the mess of dependencies.
Maybe it is just the SuSE that I'm using because they seemed to be quit goo=
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in providing RPM' s that work.

Bill

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 17:21, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 20:30, Bill Wisse wrote:
> > Andrew have you got Gnome installed on your computer?
> >
> > Maybe some of those dependencies are already taken care of if you insta=
ll
> > Gnome.
> >
> > I have Gnucash 1.6.6 installed on SuSE 8.1 (rpm) and no dependecie
> > problems. However if I want to install a later version of Gnucash I have
> > the dependecie problems as well so I leave it because 1.6.6 works just
> > fine.
> >
> > I just wonder who makes those RPM's?
> > IIMHO a RPM of a stable version should include all the dependencies
> > needed.
>
> 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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