[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Jan 15 08:27:45 CST 2003
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:59:20AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Chris Byrne wrote:
>
> > Why such a problem with Red Hat? And does that problem also extend to
> > Mandrake and other RedHatbased distributions?
>
> RPM is fragile shit (I -don't- want another corrupted RPM database
> nightmare), vendor A's RPMs aren't compatible with vendor
> B's, and the dependency system is a trainwreck ("unresolved dependency:
> foo-1.8.43.595-XYZ-47.2-gamma37").
At the moment, my main linux PC has a corrupted deb database. I haven't
been able to find anyway to fix it other than a reinstall, which I don't
have the time for.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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