On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 08:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:56 +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > > The main drawback is that distributions often are somewhat delayed, one > > does not get the very freshest software. On the other hand, the most > > recent version of something often requires recent versions of other > > software, and there you go again, hunting packages from all over, > > having to compile yourself, spending time and getting problems. > > have you ever installed firefox? it doesn't work that way. the binary is > statically linked. its not quite as easy as (yum|apt-get) install > firefox, but its nothing like the process you are referring to. > On my system firefox is dynamically linked and many other packages depend on it (like Epiphany, the Gnome browser). In fact there is a huge debate on the Ubuntu list now because the Firefox devs are dropping ALL support for 1.0.x (even security fixes) less than 6 months after 1.5 was released. Integrating 1.5 into a frozen distro will be a nightmare. Lee
