Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 2, 2014 10:08 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by ibukanov
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
We bundle libraries for various reasons:
a) To use later versions of libraries than distros are shipping. This lets us fix security and other bugs faster.
b) To expose interfaces and functionality that aren't widely deployed yet and possibly won't ever go upstream.
c) To increase consistency across platforms. This helps reduce our bug load.
a) To use later versions of libraries than distros are shipping. This lets us fix security and other bugs faster.
b) To expose interfaces and functionality that aren't widely deployed yet and possibly won't ever go upstream.
c) To increase consistency across platforms. This helps reduce our bug load.
Posted Sep 7, 2014 17:51 UTC (Sun)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Unfortunately embedding makes more work for distributions, which is why they have policies against it.