Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> wrote:
From: "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub(a)redhat.com>
> As long as the legacy programs people are installing are packaged
> as rpm, yum or other package managers can handle the dependencies
> just fine, so I don't see how is that a silent break.
> If not using a package manager, you take the responsibility
> of satisfying the dependencies yourself.
That doesn't mean breaking things on purpose.
Isn't, AFAICS.
Pissing off customers is not The Right Thing (TM),
last time I've checked.
Right.
Waiting a few more years before yanking system libs
from under people's feet would be the more prudent
thing to do. And it costs so little, it's not even
funny that it's not being considered.
This is /Fedora/, commited to being bleeding edge (or thereabouts). So the
"have everybody retain libraries for some years for nostalgia's sake"
doesn't belong here. Sure, perhaps making a group of "legacy libraries,
needed for some third party software" stand out when installing might be a
good idea.
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