Why some say "rpm hell"

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Probably a reference to the very early days of RPM (pre-yum). You'd
> install a package, then find some library was missing and go to install
> that, which led to something else missing, etc. A few cycles of this and
> you know what "dependency hell" means. Nowadays, with yum, all the
> dependencies are pulled in automatically, so "rpm hell" is largely a
> thing of the past.

Okay got it. I don't think saying it is worthy nowadays. But for an
end user this all won't matter anytime.