From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: "Martin Nybo Andersen" <tweek@tweek.dk>,
"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>,
"Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:46:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091104194606.032cb2f6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0911041901090.26209@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> > BTW: Wine has, like many others, the newest version of their software
> > prepackaged for RHEL 4 & 5 among others at their site:
> > http://www.winehq.org/download/
>
> This is exactly the link that I followed and the last version for "RHEL 5"
> is "wine-1.0.1-1.el5.i386.rpm".
So you have a supplier issue. A random windows user wouldnt cope with
that either. You try installing a Windows Vista only app on XP ;)
> A distribution that claims compatibility with the standard must ship
> libraries that are compatible with the libraries in the standard (not
> necessarily the same version, it may ship higher version for security or
> so).
Welcome to the Linux Standard Base. It's been done and it exists.
Generally speaking open source projects don't seem to care to build to it
but prefer to build to each distro.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-30 2:19 FatELF patches Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-30 5:42 ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-30 14:54 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 19:20 ` David Hagood
2009-11-01 20:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 20:59 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 21:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 21:35 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 4:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-02 15:14 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-03 14:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-03 18:30 ` Matt Thrailkill
2009-11-01 22:08 ` Rayson Ho
2009-11-02 1:17 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 3:27 ` Rayson Ho
2009-11-02 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 2:21 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 6:17 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 18:18 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:59 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 19:08 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 6:27 ` David Miller
2009-11-02 15:32 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 9:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 17:39 ` david
2009-11-02 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 19:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-02 20:11 ` david
2009-11-02 20:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-03 1:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-11-02 15:40 ` Diego Calleja
2009-11-04 16:40 ` package managers [was: FatELF patches...] Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-04 17:25 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 17:48 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 18:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 19:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-11-04 20:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 20:27 ` david
2009-11-04 20:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 20:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 21:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 21:32 ` kevin granade
2009-11-04 22:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 22:19 ` Marcin Letyns
2009-11-04 22:28 ` david
2009-11-04 22:43 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 23:55 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-05 2:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 2:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
[not found] ` <f42384a10911050134t37a0a812hd85ff5541423dc9f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-05 9:35 ` Fwd: " Marcin Letyns
2009-11-10 11:40 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 23:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 0:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-10 11:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 17:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:28 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 17:52 ` FatELF patches Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 20:13 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-04 1:09 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 11:27 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 12:40 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-10 13:00 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 16:11 ` Chris Adams
2009-11-01 20:40 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 10:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
[not found] <dAPfP-5R6-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <dBOhH-uY-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
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