Re: [school-discuss] moving along with changing dependencies

[Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>]

> You point to a great issue which project leaders should really care
> about. Who can always move same quick like the distributors? Do
> (especially) schools have problems with that. Or are they all updating
> as quick as possible? That's quite expensive, I believe. Should there be
> a list on the net which shows what configurations (only the essentials
> like glibc, gcc etc.) project leaders must expect on the computers of
> their users? Maybe creating a test-suite is possible?
> 
When I found this out I actually rpm -e the install was no need to upgrade 
to gcc 3.0 when gcc 3.1 is coming and it WILL NOT be binary compatible 
with previous releases.


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