On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:46, Jeremy Katz wrote:
Otherwise, we have a never-ending battle of one huge
monolithic package that will end up with bizarre dependencies on apps.
Managing that is going to be a nitemare in the long-term. Think of the
situation where you want to upgrade your sendmail package, but to
upgrade your sendmail package, you need the new policy that has
information for the new way sendmail is split up but *that* requires you
to upgrade something else... it can spiral out of control very very
quickly.
And then you end up with kernel patches that require apache :p
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