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Re: gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

Russell Shaw wrote:

Lastly, the closed static blob is absolutely immune from all changes in the
rest of the system, exchanging automatic upgrades from new system libraries
for absolute stability. Is that worth it, given that upgrades to system libraries
rarely break dependent aplications in most distributions?

I guess that depends on what you call a "system" library. I've seen problems with the wrong libc causing an expensive commercial program which does install nearly all its own dependencies to have problems.

-Dan


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