Am 29.05.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Michael Catanzaro:
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different
> packaging paradigm with some advantages
> and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed
> packages are newer? Isn't that
> a function of the packager?
The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications
as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there could be
incompatibilities with system
libraries
cool, and now we went the windows road
* security update of library X
* nobody knows which applications are still vulnerable
leave me in peace with that step bachwards to the 1990's