linux-kernel - Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]

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Message-ID: <14723.1257356198@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:36:38 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc:	"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@...ulus.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:02 +0100, Mikulas Patocka said:

> - With Windows installers (next - next - next - finish), even a 
>   technically unskilled person can select which version of a given 
>   software he wants to use. If the software doesn't work, he can simply 
>   uninstall it and try another version.

Theoretically.  There's this little detail called "DLL Hell" though...

(And one could reasonably argue that it requires *more* clue to resolve a
DLL Hell issue than it does to fix the equivalent dependency issue on Linux...)


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