On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 19:04 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 02-Feb-05, 18:31 (CST), Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote: > > > > So archive bloat is not a problem for you, and "apt-get dist-upgrade" not > > actually providing upgrades to the latest versions of everything is > > perfectly fine? > > In the case of RT, yes. > > I notice that there are several different versions of gcc in the > archive, and nobody seems to be bothered by that. Likewise, there are > several versions of python. There are, of course, good reasons for both. As for Python, no there aren't, except for stupid upstream behavior (Python upstream, and upstream for applications that don't keep themselves up-to-date). Even then, the situation we had at one point where Debian contained four versions of Python was totally stupid. GCC at least has the excuse different architectures need different versions. Why not hold up the examples of the tens of thousands of packages that only have one version, even though they are development "frameworks"? To pick one of extreme complexity, Perl. Perl migrations go smoother than Python migrations, too... -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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