On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:37 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > >>> Just out of curiosity, how feasible do you think it might > >>> be to give up on the overwhelmingly complex task of > >>> making all 3rd party software installation compatible, > >>> and instead make linux userland be able to install > >>> multiple incompatible packages (heck, be able to install > >>> both rpms and debs for that matter) in multiple "virtual > >>> roots"? > >> Why not just give up on any Linux install being compatible with any > >> other and compile everything statically instead - like the commercial > >> apps are forced to do since they can't count on anything in common among > >> distributions? > > > > Kinda like Google Earth and Skype? > > Kinda like _every_ linux app where it isn't recompiled for the library > version de jour and this month's file system committee shuffle for every > distro/version. So far most of the discussion of problems here has just > been about one version of one distro that can't even stay compatible > with itself. Try to imagine building something that you expect to run > for years across different distros/versions. And this is an OS where > most of the application level API was specified 25+ years ago. ---- remind me again...why are you here? Craig
