Ahh, forget repo fusion :-).

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 18:15:21 UTC 2008


On Jan 20, 2008 12:04 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, how feasible do you think it might
> > be to give up on the overwhelmingly complex task of
> > making all 3rd party software installation compatible,
> > and instead make linux userland be able to install
> > multiple incompatible packages (heck, be able to install
> > both rpms and debs for that matter) in multiple "virtual
> > roots"?
>
> Why not just give up on any Linux install being compatible with any
> other and compile everything statically instead - like the commercial
> apps are forced to do since they can't count on anything in common among
> distributions?

Kinda like Google Earth and Skype?


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