Re: containers/chroot to allow ABI breakage is the wrong approach (was: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init scripts? =))

[Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>]

Hi,

Thorsten Glaser:
> OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now,
> because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change.
> 
Glibc has versioned symbols instead …

> This is not a problem because, you know, we have Open Source, so we
> can always just recompile everything against the new libraries.
> 
I'd be ecstatic if the whole world was Open Source, but it is not.
It probably never will be.

And even if/when I have source, I'd like to continue to use my
locally-built programs. Instead of being forced to rebuild each
and every one of them, every time I do an OS upgrade. :-/

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-- Matthias Urlichs