This is one of the reasons why package based distributions are superior. They allow far more version flexibility and allow for faster distribution and upgrades. While I try not to harp about the glory of Arch linux too often, but I switched to it from a combination of slackware and gentoo two years ago and never went back. It is package base, but all the packages come with scripts that compile the package, so if you're itching to have a greater optimization flag (why on earth... I don't know, but you could) you could make world with that flag. You can also take stored packages or freshly compiled ones and move them around your network faster.
Version backwards compatibility is the wrong way to solve this problem. That puts undue pressure on the devs to make something that wouldn't appeal to many users and uses a ton of development time. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
