Am 06.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb lhecking at users.sourceforge.net: > >> And I, personally, would want an email from aforesaid manager telling me >> not to do any upgrades, which I would print out in several copies and put >> in a secure place.... >> <snip> > > You do not understand the situation I presented. This is about avoiding > a situation where in a highly complex envirnoment, due to a quirk in one > of the dozens of tools involved in designing your product, the product > suddenly changes because libc was updated to a newer rev. So you keep your > design environment static - all parts of it. We're talking business process > here, not some stand-alone, uninformed PHB decision. I am on your site - but this approach (your word, static) is also a goal of an enterprise operation system. So, your argument is valid but rare in the above example (libc breakage, enterprise context). -- LF