Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

Richard Stallman <[email protected]> writes:

> This suggests another idea to me: define (for Debian perhaps) a
> package called build-gnu-software which depends on various packages
> that we think many GNU packages will want.  We can then tell users
> that if they want to build GNU packages, they should do apt-get
> install build-gnu-software.

If that is to be done, I think it'd be good to update and standardize
the dependencies used across various GNU packages first.

> One of the packages build-gnu-software would depend on is gtk2.
>
> It is a mistake for distros to consider gtk2 and gtk3 as versions of a
> single package.  They do different jobs.  Installing gtk3 says nothing
> about whether gtk2 should be installed.  Maybe we can convince
> GNU/Linux distros to change the handling of that question,
> to treat gtk2 and gtk3 as unrelated packages.

Distros do exactly that.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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