[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Sep 10 19:01:41 UTC 2015



Am 10.09.2015 um 20:37 schrieb Matthew Miller:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 07:48:22PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> if i would want a operating system where i have no idea after
>> security updates for a library if *all* applications are fixed i
>> could just have gone to Apple OSX or stayed at Windows
>
> Unbundling is one approach to that problem. It doesn't mean that it's
> the only one

but the most important one

if you have to wait for every single maintainer or even upstream until 
they recognize they are affected and need to rebuild likely the next 
vulerability is already discovered

and that not speaking about still existing cross-deps suddenly loading 
(or try to do so) multiple versions of the same library

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