Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
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: Debian has got a lot of the key things in place, such as a good
: organization, a policy, a package manager with many strong points;
: but I feel it is still a little lacking on the reliability side.
I don't follow your argument. You seem to be saying "Because high
relieability is important to me and a few others, all Debian installs
should use statically linked binaries in certain locations by default".
You are saying this by raising this as a policy issue.
Can't a "high-reliability" package be created which contains
statically-linked binaries? I imagine such a package would need a
policy exemption for static linking, but who cares - that is the point
after all.
This way, people who crave static linking get it. Those who don't,
never miss it.
Idea, or am I talking out of my ass?
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