Re: When stability is pointless
Koh Choon Lin writes:
> It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still
> the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one
> directory
Each with its own copy of all its dependencies, including libc and all
other libraries it calls and all the programs and daemons it uses such as
dbus and hal. Sure. And then when there is a critical update to libc or
some other widely-used thing you get to upgrade every package on your
system, one at a time, as the maintainers get new packages ready. You have
the fun of downloading each of those dependencies hundreds of times and
finding space for them all.
Why not give each package its own kernel while you are at it?
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John Hasler
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