Linux fat/bloated

[Scott Elcomb]

On 4/5/06, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> No new package manager is required, but someone has to start building
> and maintaining the aggregate libs. The people in the best position to
> do this, are large distribution aggregators, like Debian, RH and SuSe.
> This would also reduce the pain that occurs when libraries are partially
> upgraded and the whole slew of dependencies must be upgraded to follow.
> Later, applications that depend on the aggregate could be compiled
> against an aggregate stub layer, added to the aggregate and exporting
> its required functions. That might open the way to dynamic (runtime)
> library selection sometime in the future.

How does an idea of this scope get moved upstream - would (or
could/should) the FSF and OSDL "route" communications in this type of
scenario?

> $0.002, from a guy who has been to dependency hell and back several
> times in the last ~10 years of continuous Linux use,

Is that before or after tax?  ;-)

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