Re:What makes us Red Hat
by djaychela on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:43PM
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What timeframe are you talking about? I remember it didn't "just work" for me when I first started experimenting with it (V4.2, IIRC). Yes, I was new, but it wasn't the easy-install experience that it now is, for sure.
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I started at around the same time -- Red Hat Linux 4 era. Yum didn't exist yet. I was also quite new to Linux, but I'm reasonably sure there really wasn't something that would do dependency resolution for you. You either had to find an RPM that had the right version, or you had to find a tarball somewhere and run configure and make yourself.