[CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

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).

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LF