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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions
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To: E. Charters who wrote (119)10/26/1998 6:27:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) of 484
 
I did not realize the problems with linking and librabries. Sharing libraries is a big headache for installation and how do you know etc that the unice has the required versions so that is prob why they did it that way.

This is the beauty of the Debian package system. I can update every piece of software on my machine by just typing one line. (using apt). The program will automatically go to the Debian ftp servers, get the latest versions of all the programs, check for dependencies with any libraries and get the required versions of them. It will install the new packages while keeping all my previous configuration files. It will stop and restart any daemons that have been upgraded. It will automatically put an entry in my X-Windows menu for each new program it installs.

If I want to install a new program, it will check for any required libraries and automagically get them, too. If upgrading a library will break an existing package, it will let you know and ask what to do first. This is light years ahead of some other dists (slackware) and much better than the Windows policy of having programs just overwrite .dlls that may be being used by other programs.

The Motif problem is more of a licensing one than a technical one. Most Linux distros do not ship Motif because it is not Free(tm), but Motif has become a defacto standard on other unices, so many commercial programs are linked to it. The only solution for systems without dynamic Motif libraries is to ship the program statically linked, leading to program bloat.
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