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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 3, 2012 16:38 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by Cyberax
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

This is why I suggested "May not depend on any package"; that is, presume that you static link everything.

If you permit depending on some packages then this is a risk which the distribution vendor would have to be committed to preventing. Or, the third party repository maintainer might be willing to guarantee/mirror a set of packages at a certain version simply so that the apps can depend on them and only them (and then it's the app store owner's problem if the base distro makes an incompatible change).


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