How Microsoft can improve Internet Explorer

How Microsoft can improve Internet Explorer

Posted Nov 27, 2004 6:33 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981)
Parent article: How Microsoft can improve Internet Explorer

Hi Leon :)

Either you play naive or you're kidding -- a friend of mine trying to get RPM on Tru64 failed in getting it working and had to reimplement a small part of that very same wheel...

Other than that, urpmi is *ugly* and highly ignorant rearding complicated interpackage dependencies (starting with package conflicts). It's a "French perl" to me, sorry :-(

Umm... APT has some weird behaviour under the hood as well (at least RPM port, 0.5.x branch) -- now I'm facing trouble with it while selecting one of the simultaneously present versions of a package branch where a few branches are present also simultaneously _and_ provide a single virtual package...

Oh well, it's all about the level of dependencies that's far more sophisticated than MS is really going to need on their native, monolithic, behemoth platform without much code reuse and any eagerness to use system components instead of bringing their [older] versions along. So maybe it's too philosophic of a comment but hey, you were the first to start wretching 'em (-:

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