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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...> - 2004-03-18 10:31:13
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Tom Hughes wrote: > > I only partly understand this thread, but reading it I'm thinking: this > > all sounds very complicated for something that only(?) affects FC2... can > > we avoid doing anything, or do something simple? It makes me > > uncomfortable every time we have to build in some special handling for a > > particular version of a library or whatever. Just an observation. > > This isn't about FC2 although it will affect it. It is currently > affecting my FC builds and one of Julian's SuSE builds I think. It > will likely affect most future distributions as well. Right. I didn't really mean to cast doubt on this particular proposal. I more just wanted to gently remind everyone about the dangers of complexity; in general, just because we can do something doesn't mean we necessarily should. N |