On 06/04/16 17:06, Richard Yao wrote: > > That does not address the problems of supporting this configuration in a > rolling release. > > Formats in /etc can fall out of sync with software in /usr. If boot > options change, the stuff in /etc/init.d is not updated. If you add > software, the update to /etc/init.d is omitted. If you have a baselayout > change, it is not propagated. Whether or not the package manager can be > used is not discussed. It definitely can be in Solaris when this feature > is used in Solaris zones, although I am not sure how that interacts with > updates as I never looked. I do not have a VM with a member of the > OpenSolaris family handy to check. /usr/etc .. or /usr/local/etc *ew* ... ?!?! > Solaris and RHEL will see the benefits described on the Fedora page > because they handled many of those problems. In most cases, they handled > it by being stale non-rolling releases that do not support major version > upgrades. Fedora handled it by having a disclaimer that things should be > expected to break across Fedora versions. Neither are things that I > expect us to do, so if we adopt this, we will need to do something > entirely new to be able to gain these benefits. >
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