Pjotr Prins: Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions. linux.com, 2008. december 22. [2015. július 8-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2013. május 22.) „All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible. Suppose you upgrade Firefox, and your package manager decides that you need a newer version of GTK as well. If the new GTK is not quite backward-compatible, then other applications on your system might suddenly break. In the Windows world a similar problem is known as the DLL hell, but dependency hell is just as much a problem in the Unix world, if not a bigger one, because Unix programs tend to have many external dependencies.”
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Anderson, Rick: The End of DLL Hell. microsoft.com, 2000. január 11. [2001. június 5-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2010. július 7.)
Pjotr Prins: Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions. linux.com, 2008. december 22. [2015. július 8-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2013. május 22.) „All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible. Suppose you upgrade Firefox, and your package manager decides that you need a newer version of GTK as well. If the new GTK is not quite backward-compatible, then other applications on your system might suddenly break. In the Windows world a similar problem is known as the DLL hell, but dependency hell is just as much a problem in the Unix world, if not a bigger one, because Unix programs tend to have many external dependencies.”
Anderson, Rick: The End of DLL Hell. microsoft.com, 2000. január 11. [2001. június 5-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2010. július 7.)
