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Ignore the troll!
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 08:28 PM EDT
At any given point in time, I have between three and ten programs on my Xubuntu
box that are either broken, or several major versions behind the current
release, because of system dependencies. (Invariably, the broken dependencies
are from programs in Ubuntu Main. Less rarely are they in Ubuntu Universe.)

The only way to avoid those "uninstallable due to dependency issues",
is to compile from source. Something I'm not enthralled with doing.

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May not be a troll
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 07 2013 @ 09:34 AM EDT
I abandoned Linux on my desktops and laptops for many years and switched to Mac
OS X because of the problems with yum and upgrades. Given the amount of code
I've contributed to Linux and the number of years I've been using it, my
deciding to abandon Linux was significant.

I remember the final straw was when I wanted to install gnucash and realized I
was going to have to reinstall almost the entire system to get it to install.

Then Apple started making Mac OS X less and less unix and more and more IOS. So
I've switched back to Linux and Gentoo.

So far I've been really happy with Gentoo. So much, that I took down my main
server and reinstalled it from scratch to get a clean Gentoo install on it
instead of Fedora.

apt-get seems to be better than yum, but I wouldn't even think of switching away
from Gentoo for it.

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