Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:44 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> synaptic does automatically resolved dependencies, but not all.
> for example try installing FC3 and then install evolution or amule.
> not gonna work. amule will require the libcurl.so.2 fix (see thread 
> about libcur.so.2)

The libcurl problem occurred because (a) your configured list of
repositories includes one with an FC1 or FC2 build of amule, requiring
libcurl.so.2, and (b) your configured list of repositories did not
include one with a suitable package containing libcurl.so.2 that did not
clash with your already-installed curl package. This would have happened
whether you were using yum or an apt-based depsolver like synaptic.

The "smart" package manager may have been able to solve the problem by
downgrading curl, but only if you had no other packages installed that
depended on libcurl.so.2, which I think is very unlikely.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>