Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

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 !

We're talking about end-users, who are not "self-compiling".

> End-users are out of scope here. They take their packages from distros. 

This is not the case on Windows or OS X, which is where most end-users are.

>> 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.

In practice, they in fact are.

-Boris