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OS vs apps

OS vs apps

Posted Jan 26, 2013 22:16 UTC (Sat) by Company (guest, #57006)
In reply to: OS vs apps by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Ubuntu considers “huge” change that would end traditional release cycle (ars technica)

Your base system is one single packet? And the apps are single packets and have no other dependencies than that base packet?


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Posted Jan 27, 2013 1:12 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

Why the devil would anybody want such an abomination? A bug in a library (and you would have to put a _lot_ of them into the "OS" part) and you are welcome to download hundred of megabytes of binaries. That's completely insane.

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Posted Jan 27, 2013 4:46 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Diff-based binary patches are nothing new. Android uses them just fine.

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