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- 155922 accessdate "2013-05-22".
- 155922 authors "Pjotr Prins, Jeeva Suresh, and Eelco Dolstra".
- 155922 date "2008-12-22".
- 155922 isCitedBy Dependency_hell.
- 155922 publisher "linux.com".
- 155922 quote "All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible. Suppose you upgrade Firefox, and your package manager decides that you need a newer version of GTK as well. If the new GTK is not quite backward-compatible, then other applications on your system might suddenly break. In the Windows world a similar problem is known as the DLL hell, but dependency hell is just as much a problem in the Unix world, if not a bigger one, because Unix programs tend to have many external dependencies.".
- 155922 title "Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions".
- 155922 url "http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155922".