Re: Quote of the day

From	Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Quote of the day
Date	2016-05-17 23:21 +0300
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Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>:

> On 05/17/2016 08:27 AM, Paul Rudin wrote:
>> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>>> That's a long time to be without a product to sell.
>> 
>> But you do have the option of building a kernel incorporating your fix
>> and using that.
>
> Sure as an individual end user that may be the best option. But not
> necessarily for a business.

Correct, the answer would be no.

> The cost of doing that could be prohibitive.

Really, the customer would simply refuse to do it. They are not in the
business of building kernels. Also, they would immediately fall out of
any kind of distro support if they improvised with their own kernel.

> When I did IT professionally, our policy with regards to Linux was to
> stick with existing packages from a known set of (mostly) official
> channels and to discourage any installing of libraries and frameworks
> from source. Allowing packages to be installed from source was just a
> maintenance nightmare. RPM (or deb or whatever) brings at least a tiny
> bit of stability and consistency.

Exactly.


Marko

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