John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2013 4:15 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Why do you believe this? > > Do you believe that centos delivers inconstsistent libraries? > > if you replace the stuff thats under RPM package management with code > you self compile and simply copy, you break the package management > system. an update might come along and not realize your code is in the > place of the original RPM supplied files and replace them. You cannot break something that is broken already. A distro that ignores updates since nearly 10 year is definitely broken. > btw, are /any/ CDDL components bundled with major linux distributions? > I know Sun Java was never bundled due to CDDL entanglement, instead we > have OpenJDK, which is GPL. Of course. The CDDL is one of the 8 major OSS licenses. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily