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[Derek Broughton]

Barry Smith wrote:

> Derek,
> 
>>Did you try http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135036
> Thank you for helping.  I'll check it out after ignoring your
> first point, which hopefully was tongue-in-cheek.
> 
>> Do you know who you're emailing?
> 
> Of course, I know who I'm emailing.
> I run Ubuntu, the most flexible Linux operating system available.

No, it wasn't tongue  in cheek.  I was seriously wondering why on earth 
you're asking us about using RPMs.
> 
>> This is Ubuntu, we don't do rpm unless forced.

> Yet, RedHat rpm would have caught the dependency, and warned
> that there was a dependency, as well as retrieving all dependencies
> if told to... just like Synaptic or apt.

If Synaptic couldn't do it, RPM couldn't do it.  Apt has much better 
dependency handling than rpm.  

> Unfortunately, the Debian distro of Hamachi didn't require a
> dependency list, or the person creating the distro was lax in
> including the "current (at the time) dependency of libcrypto.so.0.9.7
> .

Probably.  And it wouldn't be any cleaner if it was an rpm - no package 
manager can handle the dependencies on its own, it needs somebody to 
manually specify the versions when only specific versions will do.

-- 
derek