Re: [Cooker] Mdk and lack of providing real upgrades...

[Ben Reser]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:38:36PM -0600, Eaon wrote:
> Yes, this goes WAY beyond Mandrake, to every distro out there.  I share his
> frustration.  How can we on one hand decry M$ for tying products to their OS
> while on the other hand tying applications to certain versions of a distro
> due to dependencies?  Doesn't M$ have dependencies?

Yes they're called DLL's and a lot of apps replace system DLLs when they
install.  Which has a tendancy to break things and frankly is rather
annoying.  There is really only one way to solve the dependency issue
and that's to have rpms with static links (gag) or to just quit using
libraries and build everything into the app (like what happens a lot on
Microsoft platforms).  Neither solution is great but I'd rather have
dynamic links to libraries.

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