Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Graham Anderson <graham.anderson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 Apr 2012 22:08:38 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Which does not happen. I have binaries running that were built 10 years ago.

Eh? it happens all the time...

My point is, that using a newer kernel or glibc or [insert system or package 
version here] can and mostly likely will break some software that someone uses 
somewhere. Should that prevent us from upgrading our kernel or packages? Of 
course not, that would be silly.

The same argument can be applied to other changes in the system. You are 
arguing we should not make system changes because some software (that we don't 
yet know about) might break and I'm telling you that's an impractical and 
broken argument. Software will _always_ break during a development process. 
It's simply impossible to prevent; and to use that as an argument against 
change doesn't make any sense.
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