ZOMG I hate dependencies

[AntiThesis]

Been setting up a box to run as a proxy here at work. This is by way of arbly practicing and getting things up and running. I have come to hate packages and dependencies.

Surely there's a simpler way to install things than following the ever biffurcating line of requires for each package?

 

[AntiThesis]

Actually, I think I might hate lynx a little more

 

[nic777]

Wow, I haven't experienced "dependency hell" since my early days on Mandrake and Red Hat.

Once I switched to Debian and now Ubuntu, I never had bad problems with dependecies.

What distro you using?

 

[AntiThesis]

Red Hat 7.2 *cries*

It's apparently our standard worldwide (although I will be pushing for another distro soon) and it's purely console. I've actually drawn a dependency tree on one of my whiteboards to illustrate to a colleague the kind of crap it is

 

[reech]

Never had to try it but:
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/7.2/apt/