On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:04:18PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
I think this could eventually end badly, because if we did something
like openoffice.org31 and openoffice.org32 comes out and now requires
some dependency of a lib that is older in EL5 than is needed, now we
have foolib32 to maintain, etc. (purely hypothetical example, but just
something that comes to mind).
I just think we could put ourselves in a weird dependency chasing
situation down the line.
I don't think so. First we shouldn't necessarily ship everything, only
packages that have relevant improvements and don't risk causing
regressions in other things. And second, in general the issue is not
with libraries that can rather easily be packaged parallel installable.
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Pat