Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 1:35 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by ms-tg
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

> I perceive that adoption of this proposal will facilitate the construction of systems out of separately maintained, read-only components, each of which can be separately distributed and updated.

Or this proposal will facilitate the construction of systems out of separately unmaintained, read-only, components, each of which is separately distributed and abandoned.

I wonder how much experience correlates to opinion between the two extremes?

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 4:17 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I think you will have the same effort put into maintenance as the current Linux distros have, the status quo already has a large number of unmaintained also-ran distros and a few well maintained ones. The same groups would be the main providers of /usr