C++ compatibility package dropped

Dimi Paun dimi at lattica.com
Sat Jun 25 04:29:11 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 19:19 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Is it really that hard to check that group in if you want to use
> legacy software?  Not everybody uses legacy software, so forcing
> it for everyone in the base group is a bad idea IMHO.

Well, it is simply because things will silently break without
the user having any clue WTF is wrong. And yeah, 'forcing' it
for everyone is not such a bad idea, all they lose is a little
HD space. If we start arguing about a few megabytes, this is not
the place to save them.

And given the virtual zero cost for most people, breaking stuff
silently for some is definitely a bad idea. 

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.




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