Distro comparison

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Oct 22 07:51:11 EDT 2003


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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:42:43 +0900
Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:

> I think David's issue (and mine, if I'm correct) is that if the system
> still works, you shouldn't ever have to install a new version of the
> OS.  In practice, this just doesn't work out.  Eventually, there comes
> a time when you need to upgrade some piece of software, and to do so
> would cause a cascading dependency nightmare.
This is the problem we have at BLU and Bruce Dawson has on GNHLUG. We
want to upgrade to the latest mailman, but it requires Python2. Red Hat
7.1 (in our case) requires Python1 for many of its things. While JABR
installed Python2 separately,  I'm a little recalcitrant to install
mailman 2.13 and breaking all of our lists :-(
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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