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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)Posted Aug 29, 2008 17:18 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) by MattPerry Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)
What is easier is that one can upgrade their operating system or the application independent of each other without having to learn the details of system administration. Right now, if I want a new version of Firefox, I have to upgrade my entire operating system which I do not want to do. This will also upgrade all of the other packages on my system. That's a big change just to get a new version of one program.
That's called "dependencies", i.e., shiny new <foo> package needs new The price you pay for fast, solid progress is that old code is just left behind. Just like a stable API in the kernel is nonsense, it applies in userland.
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