On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bill Preece wrote:
> What would help is to make the packages with all the libaries
> included. Then have a script that will run the compiles and
> install the program in the background. They should not asume
> that you have these already. Also the Distro's should already
> install the libaries automatically not wait till every app you
> try to install has to have more and more stuff installed.
This way lays the morass of DLL hell ... bloated hardware ... and
monster binaries. It is not 'the Unix way.'
Red Carpet tries to do this -- but the problem with "packages with
all the libaries included" becomes -- Do you really wish to pull 30M
of glibc for a 12k package. Thus the shared library model, and more
recently, versioned library approach
-- Russ Herrold
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