Am 14.02.13 18:20, schrieb Linda Walsh:
They assume distributions won't interlock the binaries to specific versions
Just accept that libc is special in that every program in your system uses it. Another example would be libgcc.so, the shared library that is part of gcc. This library may only exist once in a system so that things like exception handling works across multiple binaries. -- if they NEED to do that, it is known you
either include the lib in a program-private directory, OR you statically link.
These both are band aids at best. Lib in program-private directory is mostly used in Windows and is part of the reason for the dll hell problem. Static linking can be a solution, though it creates a maintenance nightmare, and you can't statically link to libc if your code uses any function for name resolution like gethostbyname(3).
That suse is changing to releases that users cannot modify seems like you are moving toward suse as an appliance base -- that can't be modified by users -- they will just be "users"...
I don't know in which parallel dimension you've been living but the current situation hasn't changed in the 18 years I use linux and the roughly fourteen years I'm working for SUSE.
As for reasons why suse has problems with software breakage --- I've been seeing alot more 'deprecation' and no longer supported messages out of the builds of products i've done
What you call SUSE problems is first of all the problem of those that maintain a given package and many if not most of them don't work for SUSE.
as well as udev messages about unsupported messages in suse's udev configs.
See above.
Perhaps using features beyond their usable life has something to do with your binary api problems?
How many times do we have to tell you that you're barking up the wrong tree? Complain to those that maintain the upstream version of a given library! A distributor can't do that work simply because of the resources this would need. Even debian can't and won't do it. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org