Shrinking/splitting up core Was: Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc...

[Willem Riede]

On 2004.06.06 15:35, Crutcher Dunnavant wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:23:41 -0400, Willem Riede <wrrhdev at riede.org> wrote:
> > 
> > How would that work with respect to upgrades? Haven't we had cases where glibc
> > needed to be upgraded and that change affected virtually all applications?
> > With a monolithic distribution that is pretty painless, compatible versions
> > are available and replace their ancestors.
> > 
> 
> If you had installed Core, then you would subscribe to only the Core
> repository. If you had installed Desktop, you would subscribe to the
> Core repo, and the Desktop repo, etc. Desktop would NOT be a supperset
> of Core, it would be a repo in Addition To Core.

So what problem does this solve? All the current parts of the distribution still 
change together, the installer (anaconda) needs to understand that, yet the work 
to produce the repo's only goes up...

Regards, Willem Riede.