How NSA access was built into Windows

[H.S.]

Tim wrote:
> Steven P. Ulrick:
>>> I don't know if this is a full answer to the above question, but I
>>> thought that I'd try running "yum remove *selinux*" just for fun.  See
>>> the result at: http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/selinux.txt
>>>
>>> For the impatient, the file referred to above says that I would need to
>>> remove 979 RPM's:
> 
> Lyvim Xaphir:
>> Wow.  That just pegged my absurd-o-meter.
>>
>> This is a little *too* difficult.  Now I'm wondering about rpm --force
>> --nodeps.  Think I'll give that a try. 
> 
> It's always struck me that there's a fundamental problem with program
> dependencies in Linux.  In that things that *could* provide more
> features to something shouldn't be a "dependency".
> 

The situation is much better in Debian. It has apt-get and aptitude 
package managers. Aptitude solves this problem to a great extent.

Yum has to mature a *lot* to reach the level of the above two package 
managers. Compared to them, yum is in its infancy.

->HS