Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 3:03 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by paulj
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

It appears this discussion might be a relevant read

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-os-list/2014-Septem...

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 3:06 UTC (Fri) by martin.langhoff (subscriber, #61417) [Link] (1 responses)

If you are really going to lean on the de-dupe, then just ship the whole OS you need for your app and be done with it. Trust the magic pixie dust in the FS to de-dupe it all. Why do we have to burden the world with defining the part of the stack that is "base OS"?

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 5, 2014 3:11 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Not sure if the question is directed at me but potentially because it is not magic pixie dust and we would want to define a platform while allowing distributions to change things if needed at other layers.