Hi, When we do a major update on libraries we got new functions, fixes or regressions, etc. In linux we dont rewrite everything each time and so applications links to these libraries. For example I update the glib, glib is used by GTK itself and most GTK applications, so when we update glib we must rebuild all packages depending on it. If we dont do that, applications might use old and usupported functions and be buggy or dont run anymore.
Look to cook.slitaz.org, just because of glib we had more than 100 packages who dont build. Glib is modified upstream but some apps did not (yet) follow the changes or are too old, that why we patch them and fix them, that one of our distro job. On the other side we MUST upgrade main libraries because well maintained applications like firefox will not build with old glib version. > I don't get why you build the packages over and over again.. Do you get it now ? Regards, - Christophe -- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
