Ahh, forget repo fusion :-).
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jan 20 19:01:02 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:37 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton 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?
>
> Kinda like _every_ linux app where it isn't recompiled for the library
> version de jour and this month's file system committee shuffle for every
> distro/version. So far most of the discussion of problems here has just
> been about one version of one distro that can't even stay compatible
> with itself. Try to imagine building something that you expect to run
> for years across different distros/versions. And this is an OS where
> most of the application level API was specified 25+ years ago.
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remind me again...why are you here?
Craig
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