Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:02:37PM -0500, George Toft wrote:
> > Bill Nash wrote:
> > > If
> > > you're using debian, well, we wouldn't be having this discussion, now,
> > > would we? =)
> >
> > OK, I'll bite - why do we not have depencies under debian?
>
> To quote a friend, "Apt makes deps deprecated."
>
> Basicially, apt will download and take care of the dependencies for you,
> as long as you use the apt system (apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg, etc.). I
> recently converted my webserver from an LFS install to Debian and am much
> happier -- especially since compiling packages on a Pentium 75 isn't very
> much fun. =op
>
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> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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So what you're telling me is that I apt-get xfree86, for example, and it
updates all dependent packages as well? Guess I better have a pretty
big pipe, eh?
George
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