The future of Linux - architecture and package inter-dependencies

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 20 13:09:37 UTC 2006


Mauro Mozzarelli wrote:

>>I think that this issue is not specific of fedora. The issue comes from
>>upstream where incompatible api or abi are used. And it widely depends on
>>which package you're looking at. For example glibc is very stable (thanks
>>    
>>
>
>No it is not, but this does not mean that Fedora could not or should not
>address it. 
>
Trying to shoehorn a ABI or API policy within Fedora would take a large 
amount of work without upstream involved in the decisions.

>Since this distribution is touching the cutting-edge Linux
>solutions, it could steer the community to focus more on architectural
>design which could bring more benefits than binning backwards
>compatibility to support the latest driver hack (just an example).
>  
>
Concentrate and help fix problems on the individual projects instead of 
drawing out grandiose plans.


-- 
Rahul 

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