ESR: Goodbye Fedora- big picture

[Les Mikesell]

John P. Fisher wrote:

> 2) a few other rhetorical comments-
> Isn't this a result of the torrent of new apps that has arrived since 
> RH7-8 and Debian Woody days?

No, you've just forgotten how bad RH7 and 8 were.  After many, many, 
updates RH7.3 became absolutely rock solid but RH8 was like starting 
from scratch and was never really fixed - they just moved on to 9.

> Isn't this fundamentally the same shared library disaster that they call 
> dll-hell on Windows? Boy howdy that Windows repository was a great 
> solution...

It's a different version of the same problem.  Linux shared libs have a 
versioning scheme that lets different apps run the versions each needs 
at the same time.  Unfortunately, there is no coordination among 
repositories to make this work with anything that replaces a library 
that is also in core or extras, so RPM sees conflicting versions of the 
same thing.

> At bottom isn't this a rate-of-change issue? The Mac world solves this 
> by welding the hood shut. As soon as you start adding uncommon software 
> there, OSX has problems too.

Have you experienced this with software obtained from the same source or 
compiled locally?

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   Les Mikesell
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