debian dependecy hell

Fri Jul 30 00:58:45 UTC 2004

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:45:05PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> I forced all of them after reading on the incompatibility issues. 
> Unconfortable ? If my mail headers in the next emails will be different 
> (from another machine) then you'll know I am unconfortable.
> 
> debian was supposed to be easy ? Give me slackware any day or night.

Debian stable IS easy.  testing is harder, and unstable is often hard.
Mixing versions is very very hard unless you understand how to deal with
mixing versions and using the apt pinning system properly.

Lennart Sorensen
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