Ahh, forget repo fusion :-).

[Les Mikesell]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>>> Just out of curiosity, how feasible do you think it might
>>> be to give up on the overwhelmingly complex task of
>>> making all 3rd party software installation compatible,
>>> and instead make linux userland be able to install
>>> multiple incompatible packages (heck, be able to install
>>> both rpms and debs for that matter) in multiple "virtual
>>> roots"?
>> Why not just give up on any Linux install being compatible with any
>> other and compile everything statically instead - like the commercial
>> apps are forced to do since they can't count on anything in common among
>> distributions?
> 
> Kinda like Google Earth and Skype?

Kinda like _every_ linux app where it isn't recompiled for the library 
version de jour and this month's file system committee shuffle for every 
distro/version.  So far most of the discussion of problems here has just 
been about one version of one distro that can't even stay compatible 
with itself.  Try to imagine building something that you expect to run 
for years across different distros/versions.  And this is an OS where 
most of the application level API was specified 25+ years ago.

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   Les Mikesell
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