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by dschuetz 940 days ago
Why? Because of Dependency Hell. Apt sometimes even tries to solve "circular dependencies". Ridiculous.
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smallerfish 940 days ago
I haven't run into dependency hell in 15 years of using deb on Ubuntu.
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jacquesm 940 days ago
Lucky you.
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loxias 940 days ago
I haven't had problems with dependency hell since the early 2000s. And even then, looking back, I'm entirely sure the problem was not in myself.

You're possibly using it wrong.

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dschuetz 937 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell

Seems like I am not alone. If the problem does not affect you much, does not mean it does not exist.

Yeah, the usual "works for me" attitude has had never helped anyone. So, good for you.

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jandrese 940 days ago
Dependency issues usually only appear on Ubuntu when you start adding third party repos, especially for software that has a version in the main repo. If you stick to the main repo you will basically never have them.
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MrDresden 940 days ago
Have plenty of PPAs on my system but also make sure to do propper pinning.

Haven't had any major dependency related issue in years.

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