Couple weeks ago I installed RHEL 4 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) on a web-development server. Everything installed perfectly off the CDs and I was able to get the server up and running in a couple hours. I was impressed that it was that easy and that *gasp* everything worked!
Not for long though... The CDs came with MySQL 3.23 and I needed atleast 4.1 in order to do what I needed to do. So now, I'm stuck in a dependency crawl which will probably end with my breaking half the system or re-installing EVERYTHING in order to get it up and running.
The point is, this type of behaviour is unacceptable if Linux is to have any chance at mainstream use, and the sad part is that nothing can be done about it =(
Not for long though... The CDs came with MySQL 3.23 and I needed atleast 4.1 in order to do what I needed to do. So now, I'm stuck in a dependency crawl which will probably end with my breaking half the system or re-installing EVERYTHING in order to get it up and running.
The point is, this type of behaviour is unacceptable if Linux is to have any chance at mainstream use, and the sad part is that nothing can be done about it =(