Linux fat/bloated

[Peter]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Scott Elcomb wrote:

> 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?

I have no idea. Eventually someone will tell someone who will tell 
someone (repeat 6 times) and then someone who can do something about it 
will hear about it.

Peter
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