I Give Up.
Jan. 26th, 2004 11:44 amI went back to RedHat. Why?
Because Debian sucked worse than Gentoo. I cannot freakin' believe some of the bizarre "package dependencies" in Debian. I can't uninstall Nautilus without unstalling Gnome. Okay, I understand some people make a religion out of Nautilus, so I might have been able to live with that. But then apt wouldn't let me remove mkisofs without deleting Gnome.
What. The. Fuck, Over?
Mkisofs is a program for converting a directory tree into an image suitable for burning onto a CD. Apparently, it's packaged with cdrecord, which has a Nautilus helper, which cannot be uninstalled without breaking Nautilus, which in turn (so the logic goes) cannot be uninstalled without breaking Gnome. So the entire desktop manager gets ripped out.
It's a freakin' command line program with NO dependencies, Debian's assertion to the contrary. I CAN remove it from Redhat, but not from Debian?
Because Debian sucked worse than Gentoo. I cannot freakin' believe some of the bizarre "package dependencies" in Debian. I can't uninstall Nautilus without unstalling Gnome. Okay, I understand some people make a religion out of Nautilus, so I might have been able to live with that. But then apt wouldn't let me remove mkisofs without deleting Gnome.
What. The. Fuck, Over?
Mkisofs is a program for converting a directory tree into an image suitable for burning onto a CD. Apparently, it's packaged with cdrecord, which has a Nautilus helper, which cannot be uninstalled without breaking Nautilus, which in turn (so the logic goes) cannot be uninstalled without breaking Gnome. So the entire desktop manager gets ripped out.
It's a freakin' command line program with NO dependencies, Debian's assertion to the contrary. I CAN remove it from Redhat, but not from Debian?
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