On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:53:11 -0800 John Wendel john.wendel@metnet.navy.mil wrote:
And I have a broken Ubuntu 6.10 box that was caused by updating from a non-ubuntu repository. They all suck! It must be a hard problem.
I have often considered trying gentoo to see if building my own damn libs and programs from source would operate better, but I have the feeling that would just push the problem out to more esoteric kinds of dependency issues like new compilers refusing to build old source.