[SLE] 9.1 already legacy?

From: Roger Penn (poohbear_at_rogweb.com)
Date: 07/28/04

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    Since Red Hat imploded I decided it might be time to try something
    different, rather than just automatically moving to Fedora. I settled on
    SuSE and so far, for the most part, it's quite nice. Then I discovered
    something nasty.

    One of the first things I did was go to LiveJournal to download a new
    client (since I went from a Gnome environment to KDE). When I tried to
    install it, it gave me a page and half of unsatisfied dependencies.
    Imagine that. The latest distro with all the bells and whistles, and
    it's not enough to run a simple lj client. Huh.

    But here's the thing I find really disturbing. I attempted to upgrade
    openssl, and found that upgrading it would break just about everything
    on the system. It seems the system requires libssl.so.0.9.7 - nothing
    older, nothing newer. So that means any software written in the future
    (using libraries that are newer than the exact version exptected) will
    be unusable on my brand new SuSE 9.1 system. So my new system is already
    legacy. What's up with that? Why can't things be written to require
    version x OR NEWER?

    Just my 2 cents worth. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
    discussion. 

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