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> S N wrote:
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> Creative thoughts, but I feel a little uncomfortable with it. In fact,
> the other day (yesterday) I was pondering a distro that wasnt a distro.
> Just a platform, and a base off which to install stuff from other
> sources. Was pondering the way ximian's stuff worked, was studying
> various models. Not too sure I liked it. For one, two windozey. It
> just cant hold together like the integrated 'distribution of
> applications'. two, with the way just about everything in the linux
> world is still -devel if it is any good, and just the way...well, ya
> ever notice how you cant seem to upgrade one app without upgrading all
> the others? see, i suppose that this concept is for an all static
> distribution (if there are any stampede developers listening that
> remember this discussion we had at the last few meetings). Because like
> windoze where it dont matter the other apps because every app will use
What i got is that libs in memory have precidence. With the windows way
of libs that is really nice(way to make things crash)
> its own libraries, even if 30 other apps use em. And nothing ever
> changes. noone ever upgrades just because of the way it is, not free,
> closed source, and thus not widely available in the matter that linux
> proggies are. But no, this is not the way to go. not for mandrake.
> not yet. Cuz where i was goin earlier, with the rapid pace of
> development, one couldnt upgrade one app. it wouldnt work. so we have
> distros, distros like 80 and distros like cooker and the user need not
> worry about it. Just *DONT* LIKE IT! So anyway...
> But this idea you (sn) have...nasty. Many holes in that idea (many many
> many) that would have to be shored up before even a first attempt. And
> it would require vast amounts of resources taken from mandrake to this
> new concept while mdk was still in production just to develop and test
> it. takes years my boy. it would ruin the distro because of the strain
> on resources. bad b-ad b-a-d B-a-d BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD!
> I wanna throw a tantrum over here...
> -Blue
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If you make a sindle use "distro" you need it to make it work much beter. This
include making it work easy with exceptions you never tought of. Which means a
lot more testing and such
