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* Topic for #centos set by z00dax at Fri Jul 31 23:43:40 2009
<notrael> hi. why is it 2009 and im still having dependency issues like it's 1995?
<wolfy> notrael: because you are using slackware or you are not familiar with yum or you are mixing incompatible repos. or some other explanation.
<notrael> why do people use rpm based distros? what is the advantage?
<notrael> so the issue with rpm based distrobutions is that there is no standard in repositories?
<notrael> i may be downloading a .rpm for say, fedora that is supposed to be used for centOS?
<DiscordianUK> Rpm is much older than debian
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<wolfy> notrael: please be as kind as to read (loud if necessary) the topic of the channel. thank you
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<DiscordianUK> and you shouldn't mix repos from distros
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<notrael> should i yum install read_topic first?
<notrael> or will that fail?
<DiscordianUK> err
<DiscordianUK> Read the channel topic
<DiscordianUK> up there
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