On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:52:26PM -0600, Bryan Paxton wrote: > However, this does bring up in an interesting point. You say Mandrake > packages are not "supposed" to be backward compatible with older > versions of the distro. At a glance, that sounds harmless and logical > (I'm sure there are reasons for this). > But isn't this the exact same reason, or one of them anyway, why we fled > from the world of Windows to begin with? > e.g., MS Office backward compatibility
He probably should have said aren't necessarily backwards compatible. Sometimes they use newer libraries. Names of required packages change (e.g. the new lib name scheme) and other changes in the distribution make the RPMS incompatible. However, I'd argue the reasons many of us fled Windows is preciously the opposite. Microsoft has held onto DOS/Win3.1 compatiblity at the cost of stability forever. Things have to progress and sometimes the only way to do that is to make things incompatible. However, I routinely borrow cooker packages and compile them under older Mandrake distributions. Just yesterday I took the cooker everybuddy package and rebuilt it under 7.2. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
