On Thursday, 19 December 2013 09:35:14 CEST, Michał Górny wrote:
And how is this an issue to the major distributions? Binary distros can do a simple switch with standard all-package upgrade and forget about it. Like they usually do. Only people who built from sources have to think about it.
Wrong; the binary-only distributions have to ship a ton of compat-$foo packages, if only for compatibility with 3rd party software. At least that's what RHEL has been doing for ages.
Jan
