On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, clemens fischer<ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrei Thorp wrote: > >> Well, as far as I can tell, the problem is that this requires the >> updating of the 4050 packages we have at the moment. All of them. By >> hand. For rather limited gain. > > Well, you don't get it as far as I can tell. As all paths stay the > same, _not one single package_ has to be updated. That's what I mean > with "compatible". "/usr/bin/file" is still "/usr/bin/file", but it > could be a symlink instead of a file. Look at the .so libraries: Okay, but how do those links get to the places they're supposed to be if you don't update packages to put them there? Anyway, I think there is a widely echoed polite "decent idea if we didn't already have all we need. No thank you". Cheers, -AT
