Re: Desktop Kernel Stuff

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> on the compatibility / legacy side its not so much things like NFS but 
> things like 'hey, what do you mean my glibc is 3 years old, it worlks just 
> fine'. Seriously - there is no reason to assume people will do base system 
> upgardes on a different cycle than the usual 3-4 year PC upgrade cycle. 
> This is going to increasingly affect what is easily deplyoable by vendors 
> and supportabel by open source projects as a minimum system level.

libc is actually less of a problem because you can merge libc functions
into your support code. NFS kills you because its other boxes beyond your
control.

> also, its odd seeing people want EA when gnome doesn't really even do 
> anything useful (or cope with) just plain old ACL-s.

EA gives you way more than ACLs - Use EA's to remember what package installed
a file, what mime types, keywords, ....