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by a1369209993 2442 days ago
Fraudulent transitive dependencies.

My application depends on libuseful version 1 or later. libuseful_1 depends on libtiny, but libuseful_2 depends on libbigballofmud, which consists of libtiny and 800 other libraries that have been merged together for political reasons. libuseless, which was also merged into libbigballofmud, depends on rce-daemon, or nvidia-brick-the-install, or systemd, and I've never heard of rce-daemon before, so it's not blacklisted and installs with no error message. As the other two options suggest, this is not hypothetical.
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majewsky 2442 days ago
> nvidia-brick-the-install

Is this in reference to when the nvidia driver had

  sudo rm -rf /usr /lib/something/something
in its install script?
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a1369209993 2442 days ago
... I'm not actually surprised.

But no; my desktop machine has a video card that doesn't display anything (black screen) if booted with the non-legacy nvidia drivers. I had to boot off a old 32-bit install to get rid of them and then wrestle apt/dpkg back into a sane state.

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majewsky 2442 days ago
Ah right, yes, NVidia frequently drops support for old models in their newer driver releases. I'm so happy I have left that world behind, with both my PC and notebook using AMD GPUs.
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