Tue, 18 Jul 2006
Upgrading by Deep Dependency
posted by Chip Witt
The technical analog to "Management by Shiny Object" would have to be "Upgrading by Deep Dependency". I am usually very quick to speak highly of Gentoo Linux as both a Linux distribution and general philosophy, but I have recently been stung by a requirement to upgrade a cascade of seemingly unrelated packages that ultimately "broke" my system in the performance of what I thought was a simple application update...an update intended to resolve a minor bug. Little did I know that I would very soon be begging for the minor annoyance of that bug to return just so I could have my life back. I've been a Gentoo user for at least 5 years, so I know that if I am frustrated, other less dedicated users must be leaving the distribution in droves.
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