Ahh, forget repo fusion :-).

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
> 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?

Mostly because the mistakes made here propagate into other versions that 
I'll eventually want to use - although they keep much of what I do on 
Windows anyway.

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   Les Mikesell
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