On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote:

<quote who="Lindsay Holmwood">

For all its faults, Linux distros still kick the crap out any other OS
when it comes to distributing and applying updates.

Now we just have to kick the crap out of the software developers who package binaries linked to specific shared object instances resulting in a package update dependency spiral of doom instead of allowing minor version releases to use existing codebases.


rachel

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