On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 11:53 +0100, Alexander Kahl wrote: > Most of what is described here is already covered by Nix (leaving out > the hardware driver part). > > This is why I endorse dumping yum, RPM *and* the stupid FHS in favor of > Nix, focusing all development on something that is clearly superior by > substantiating the synthesis of DOS (*cough*) and POSIX style > installations: Minimal redundancy, maximum compatibility, (mostly) > predictable rollbacks, atomicity, referential transparency: Purely > functional package management. > > Oh, and by the way, we could leave behind all those discussions > regarding dynamic linking: RPATH for everything and everyone. If you've > linked against libfoo-4.2-2 during build time, libfoo-4.2-2 will be > present during runtime, same location, same file. Period. :) I'm sorry for not studying the Nix concepts in depth, but can you please answer me just a simple question how security or other critical bugfixes _in libraries_ are handled under this "RPATH for everything" paradigm? -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel