Re: What Is Linux?

On 2008-01-07, Randy Yates <yates@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
I used Fedora Core 1 until a couple weeks ago. It hasn't been officially
supported in quite a while, but I was able to keep it going by building
my own rpms from source rpms or tarballs. Except for things tied to a
specfic (more modern) desktop environment, this worked pretty well.

Window managers (e.g., compiz) and desktop environments (e.g., gnome)
are the very types of things I'm referring to. Why must these be tied to
a distro? Simply build the required dependencies into the RPMs and let
the installer decide what needs to be updated. For example, if the
latest version of gnome requires an updated dbus version, why not
put that hook into the rpm?


I'm not a software developer by any stretch of the imagination (only one
official computer class in my life: a semester of Fortran back in 1972),
and so I can only comment on my experience, which is that significant
changes in e.g. gnome or KDE require substantial changes in underlying
software like gtk, glib, qt, etc, that in turn end up affecting other
programs that rely on these packages. And don't get me started on
changes to glibc and its ilk. It gets to be a very tangled mess very
quickly.

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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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