Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

* Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > No. You should just clean *import* these packages and expect them 
> > to be existing on the target system.
> 
> OK.  We expect them to.  They typically don't.
> 
> Now what?

Their fault. Self-compiling people and distro maintainers should
be expected to kwno what they're doing !

> > With this simple constraint, 
> > development and maintenance complexity breaks down dramatically.
> 
> Yes, and the ability of users to run the application also breaks down.

End-users are out of scope here. They take their packages from distros. 
 
> > Please leave this to the distros. 
> 
> Brian was talking about the issues with msvcrt.  You responded that we 
> should use a different libc.  How are distros involved in this 
> dicussion, exactly?

Distros are not limited to free platforms.


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