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Re: A "progressive" distribution



On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:27:18PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ed Szynaka wrote:
> > > How does this account for drastic changes to something like libc that
> > > might take weeks or months to shake out?
> 
> Build daemons could take care of the 90% or so of packages that would just
> need a recompile.

That ignores the arguments over what needs to be recompiled, the time
needed to discover problems, the time needed to make the compilations
work, etc. Build daemons are not omnipotent. (Otherwise they'd be build
deities...I digress.)

-- 
Mike Stone

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