"Ferdinand O. Tempel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Don't expect things to work if you adopt to "the entire Debian way of
> >thinking".
>
> Actually, I do. I don't care much about what the debian project "thinks" or
> "expects", and I doubt it's what you claim as:
>
> "As long as Debian compiles software on Linux-2.4 and
> expects the resulting binaries to work on Linux-2.2,
> the did not yet grok how to deal with evolvoing
> interfaces"
>
> I've been using Debian for a while, and I have never really encountered
> issues with kernels. Besides, it's besides, the point. The whole thing would
> not built against a Linux kernel but against Opensolaris. Entirely different
> beasts, but given that most common software which lives in debian builds and
> works fine for most other "free" unix likes (*BSD, HURD, Linux) and indeed on
> a whole slew of non free (Solaris (well, it used to be non free), Irix, HPUX,
> AIX) unices, and heck, even non unices at all (Windows, OpenVMS), I doubt
> it's really that much of a problem. Besides, kernel dependent components need
> to replaced *anyway*, so I fail to see how your point actually has any
> relevance at all.
So you just had good luck.
I am only aware of the problem because I got "bug reports"
against cdrecord.
I did explain the Debian people how to correctly deal with this
problem to no avail.
Jörg
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