[haiku] Re: Core libraries / package management
- From: "Brecht Machiels" <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:41:24 +0100
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:46:31 +0100, Zenja Solaja <solaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Over on the development mailing list there is talk about the damages
caused by an update of libcurl, and how a point release broke so many
apps. This is the sort of thing we used to mock Linux with - the never
ending
dependancy "whack-a-mole" game. During the great package management
debate
of 2011, so many users (not developers) were very vocally against package
management, for the very same reason libcurl demonstrated. The only time
package management works is when the packages are strictly controlled by
the core developers.
If the package metadata (dependency info) can be separately updated by the
community, as proposed (and still planned, I hope), these kinds of
problems will be detected and resolved very quickly (for example,
resulting in reverting to the previous libcurl), even without action
needed by any developers. I believe this is a fundamental advantage over
Linux package managers that can make it work well.
--
Brecht
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