On 16.10.2017 22:22, Peter Tribble wrote:
Looking around, there's actually not much duplication of effort. Where
distros
want the same output, work largely gets done once; when distros want
different
outputs, work cannot be shared so easily, and doing so would increase
the
burden on everybody.
Hi.
By duplication I mean, we've just updated net-snmp to 5.7.3. OmniOS has
done this several years ago (as well as pkgsrc).
Each time this update was tested, dependent software rebuilt and so on.
The same goes for other basic software
packages. The only issue I see is the cost of communication vs the cost
of duplicate work. (I mean that it can be not so easy
to coordinate updates between distributions, especially when there's ABI
breakages, like on net-snmp 5.4->5.7 update).
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