Patrick Useldinger([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2007.01.17 18:34:35 +0000: > Nick Holland wrote: > >Verifying the > >dependencies for every combination of "core packages" would be > >difficult...and pointless. > > Well I think that's feasible, it the package manager manages > dependencies and the dependencies in the packages are correct.
And the version- and dependency information that the package managers decisions are based on is provided by ... the developers, whose work gets more difficult. q.e.d. > That's true, but by actually using packages, following -stable could be > done by updating small packages and it would perhaps make binary updates > easier because only parts of the OS would have to be updated. You can update parts of the OS right now: see the instructions in every patch-file on http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html /Benno -- Sebastian Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
