On May 18, 2004, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The bottom line is disttags bring a lot of benefits as can bee seen in > their implementation in the wild, have caused no harm, and come at > very little expense. I don't see benefits for the core proper, and I do see problems. So it's not as clear-cut as you say. The reality of add-on repositories is quite different because their goal is to use the same package on multiple OSs. Issuing updates doesn't work that way. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
