On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:
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> In the OS/App differentiation, you are expecting each is coming from a different source.
> Apps are either boxed, or coming from a project.
> The app provider should fix their version of libxml, and the OS provider should fix their version of libxml

which is the definition of "fundamentally flawed"
period



Lets disagree here. I don't believe it is fundamentally flawed.

It seems you are expecting every software developer in the world to accept the versions that a Fedora packager has selected for a release without regards to functionality or changes being exposed. No wonder it it becomes impossible to run any app "on " Fedora for any length of time.