:OSNews: LSB and 'Dependency Hell': The Buck Stops Here
OSNews: LSB and 'Dependency Hell': The Buck Stops Here Aug 6, 2004, 02 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (4525 reads) (Other stories by Karl Zollner)
"What follows in the article is an analysis of the 'dependency hell' problem in Linux and the issues surrounding software installation. I make a proposal of my own and critique the suggested 'solutions' to these problems and point my finger at 'the' (my perception) source of these problems.
"I have used Linux for almost 8 years now and exclusively for the last three, so I have experienced what many refer to as 'dependency hell.' Two years ago I switched to Gentoo which radically reduced my experiences with dependency hell. I will not say it eliminated it-for I love to play with the very newest and latest, but as regards those packages in portage I have had extremely few dependency problems -read perhaps 3 times..."
