[Fsf-friends] Broken pgms
Praveen A
pravi.a@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Fri Apr 27 23:12:17 IST 2007
2007/4/27, Mahesh M <maheshmukundan at gmail.com>:
> Why is it that the required files and libraries are not distributed with the
> package?
Not necessary.
> Can any arrangement be made for the same?
>
The original problem is already solved using automatic dependency
resolution (apt, yum ...)
> Like... When s/w s are d/l ed one may not be able to install it (errors like
> ncurses are missing and all)
there is a different way to do it.
> User end people find it very very difficult... They hate searching net for
> every single thing jus to install one single package.
May be they have been using old stuff. Show them debian etch.
> I have been hearing this for a thousand times..
>
I'm sure not these days.
> Is it just about the size consumption or is there any other concern??
>
Could be one of the concerns. Why would every program install a
library which is already installed?
Cheers
Praveen
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