serious upgrade problem

[Jima]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Andrew wrote:
> Hello, since TSS seam pretty lazy on upgrades I decided to get my feet
> wet and do it myself. I want gnome 2.8 badly.

 Venting or not, I find unresearched rants like this offensive.  Jumping 
major revisions within the same distro release is rather uncommon.  Most 
upgrades are bug/security fixes, which are usually done with a minimal 
patch to the current version of the problem.  Calling them lazy for not 
doing something that isn't common practice is fairly insulting.  YDL4 is 
based on Fedora Core 2.  If you want some magic widget from FC3, either 
you should do it yourself (which, applaudably, you have), or wait for a 
version of Yellow Dog which contains it (which, yes, will likely take 
quite some time).  I for one don't find personal attacks to be part of the 
formula.
 Of course, I, too, am venting.

 Don't get me started about the frequent cries of "RPM dependency hell."  
Dependencies are generally there to keep you from doing something stupid 
and making components incompatible with each other.  AFAIK, they exist 
under any sane packaging system.  Getting all the pieces to interlock 
correctly isn't necessarily a simple task, as you've likely discovered.

 Feel free to call me down if you think I'm too far out of line. *shrug*

     Jima