Cristian RodrC-guez wrote:
On 02/14/2013 08:40 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Opensuse is guaranteeing the obsolescence of each release by making it binary incompatible with previous releases.
OK, I'm done with you Linda, I explained to you how things work, why they work that way, and the tradeoffs involved between making a distribution easy to use,upgrade and develop
under the assumption users will not try to do insane things like what you are clearly doing and must assume you are on your own. ==== The things that you call insane are normal practice to computer people. They assume distributions won't interlock the binaries to specific versions -- if they NEED to do that, it is known you either include the lib in a program-private directory, OR you statically
You are not making it easy for users to use, upgrade and develop on. You are making it easier for yourself at the expense of users. link. But you don't screw over the user's ability to upgrade their software from sources as you have done now. You seem to have forgotten something, - and that is that distro's exist to benefit the users -- to make their life easier -- they don't exist to make their own lives easier at user's expense. That used to be a quick route to losing users -- but given the widespread cult of apple and walled-gardens, most don't care anymore -- that doesn't mean it's insane to still want the freedoms that have been on suse for over 10 years. 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"... Suse catered to developers at one point as well as well as leaving the door open for those who use their systems as a server -- or is that crazy too? Maybe suse is only focusing on the desktop appliance route. 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 as well as udev messages about unsupported messages in suse's udev configs. Perhaps using features beyond their usable life has something to do with your binary api problems? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org