Re: PLEASE READ: egcs issues
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> I don't understand. Why should we hold up our development solely to let
> RedHat users run binaries in .deb packages? It makes no sense to me.
Three reasons:
1. The Linux community SHOULD work together to provide consistency. Alot
of work has been done towards this effect already.
2. There already was an i386 issue regarding this where the same
conclusion was drawn: compatibility can often be a key towards winning
over users of other distributions.
3. On the Alpha especially where RH is the dominant distribution right
now, sometimes, binaries are only available that may need to be used
on both distributions. As it is, I doubt any of us really want to
think that RH packages will run on Debian, but Debian's don't run
anywhere else but on another Debian system.
4. (Ok, I'll add a fourth) Fixing this issue will definitely help
users of older versions of slink that are upgrading. As it stands,
if they upgrade dpkg, let's say, before libc6.1, it may break package
installs of EVERYTHING.
C
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