On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:24:54AM -0800, Mr O wrote:
> Instead of KDE/Gnome, vi/emacs, beer/soda wars I think
> developers should work toward more binary packages. Reduce the
> dependencies on shared libs. What else causes more headache and
> grief than updating one thing and three others no longer work?
> Modern computers certainly don't lack disk space.
>
> Any pros/cons, thoughts on that?
Yeah, sounds like a flaw in Gentoo. (And the reason I stopped using it
actually..)
Debian-derived systems have had that problem pretty much resolved ages
ago, to the point that when there was libc5 -> libc6, you just installed
libc6 and a few packages that used it. As more packages were built
against it, libc5 become more obsolete, until it was no longer required at
all.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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