You really don't know what you are talking about. Most other distributions have dependency RESOLVING systems, even with RPM. Mandriva has urpmi, which has the same functionalities than apt-get. After configuring the source addreses, it is able to download and install all required dependencies for one required software. Red Hat/Fedora has yum, which works similarly.
Unfortunately, there are many people here that never tried other distros than Ubuntu and only repeat what they have heard and which is erroneous. And don't get me wrong, I like *Ubuntu/Debian. But it is dishonest to claim they were the first distros to be able to resolve dependencies, as we can read so often.
Ridiculous. urpmi has its GUI (rpmdrake) which handles the updates the same way.
New slashdotter verdict: you don't know what you're talking about and FUD.
This is FUD. No need to download and install. urpmi --auto-select will do this for you, as much as apt-get can do it. Very soon you are going to say there is dependency hell with rpm, which has been solved for years with urpmi. And I know Ubuntu users for whom the update did not go as smoothly as you claim (just have a look on support forums).
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You really don't know what you are talking about. Most other distributions have dependency RESOLVING systems, even with RPM. Mandriva has urpmi, which has the same functionalities than apt-get. After configuring the source addreses, it is able to download and install all required dependencies for one required software. Red Hat/Fedora has yum, which works similarly. Unfortunately, there are many people here that never tried other distros than Ubuntu and only repeat what they have heard and which is erroneous. And don't get me wrong, I like *Ubuntu/Debian. But it is dishonest to claim they were the first distros to be able to resolve dependencies, as we can read so often.
Ridiculous. urpmi has its GUI (rpmdrake) which handles the updates the same way. New slashdotter verdict: you don't know what you're talking about and FUD.
This is FUD. No need to download and install. urpmi --auto-select will do this for you, as much as apt-get can do it. Very soon you are going to say there is dependency hell with rpm, which has been solved for years with urpmi. And I know Ubuntu users for whom the update did not go as smoothly as you claim (just have a look on support forums).
Mandriva has always provided free updates...