Upgrading to Red Hat 8 or some other distro

[Bill Nash]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, George Toft wrote:

> Bill Nash wrote:
> >
> > Why not just the selective pain of upgrading QT?
> >
> > - billn
>
> Fear of a shiton of dependencies . . .
>

	They're just dependencies, though. It's not like a raving pack of
bikers coming to trash your living room. Push come to shove, make a
backup (then you can repeat the pain over and over, if that's your thing.)
Learning to trace and handle dependencies can be a little daunting at
first, but it's like falling off a bike. If you're working from source,
check the READMEs for required package references. If you're working from
RPM, check the docs for the relevent package and see what it requires. If
you're using debian, well, we wouldn't be having this discussion, now,
would we? =)

It just takes a little bit of legwork and preparation, and holding your
system's hand as you casually bludgeon new libraries into place. Best way
to learn. =)

- billn