Re: tlug: PJE

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Right, but it is also very nice to be able to mix Redhat's and TL's
> library packages. 

Nice, perhaps.  Wise?  I don't think so.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned.  Although I can grudgingly admit that using
precompiled executables is sometimes okay (and often necessary: quake and
WP, for example), I contend that one should NOT make a habit of plugging
shared library RPMs into their system.

There is just too much variance between the RedHat environment and the TL
environment.  A library compiled for RedHat 24.7 could have been compiled
against glibc-3.14, while TL ships with glibc-3.15.  Maybe Ulrich changed
one of the fields in the dirent struct (don't laugh -- it has been done)
between 3.14 and 3.15, and it breaks that RedHat library.

> If we want to change it, we should propose this change to the rpm
> community as a whole. 

Thanks for a perfect illustration of why I don't use any distribution,
preferring to hand-roll my own.  If I have to deal with a brain-damaged
convention, I'd prefer not to play.

-- Chris

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