On 8/5/2011 22:39, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 06/08/2011 07:20, Darren New nous fit lire :
>> Does a tarball on Slackware actually track dependencies?
>
> well, it won't compile if the dependencies is not already installed. ;-)

Well, yes. The trick is (A) keeping things up to date, and (B) not 
uninstalling dependencies for code that's installed. :-)

I mean, there were lots of UNIX systems without any sort of package manager. 
That's what RedHat fixed.  So I'd say, yes, sure, a "real" Linux program is 
available as a package.  If your Linux doesn't use packages, then obviously 
you don't use the package version of the program.

> (but it can be complex if you want option A for some packages and not-A
> for some others... which have a common package!)

That was always the problem I ran into, yes. Or conflicting versions of DLLs 
both referenced without version numbers.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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