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Re: Default Debian install harassed me



On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:01:31 -0500
John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:

> Patrick Bartek writes:
> > Welcome to the Wonderful Hell of Dependencies.  
> 
> That's not dependency hell.  Dependency hell is what we had before
> package management systems.  I assure you that occasionally permitting
> the installation of a program you don't need is preferable by far.

They are each their own Hell.  Package management software solved, more
or less, one type, but created another beast as the OP has discovered
and that we each deal with in our own ways.  Such is life . . . and
software. ;-)

B


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