Has version dependency breakage been bothering you lately? You see, we in the land of FOSS do not believe such idiotic things as backward and forward compatibilities. Rather, like swine flu and various nasty diseases, free software is supposed to evolve and mutate until nothing you throw at it will work anymore, and in order for us to continue to reinvent the wheel in humankind’s collective knowledge of software development, we simply have no other choice but to leave you with all the inconveniences resulting from the hooks and function calls that we have decided to leave out or deprecate for inexplicable reasons. Don’t worry, though – if a version of your software suddenly stops working due to library or other userland incompatibilities, simply throw the damned thing into a chroot jail along with the 1,023 packages that it depends upon, and you will have the assurance that it will be up and running in no time.
On the other hand, if your software is one of those evil products that come with kernel plugins (sans the blessing of GregKH), then screw you.
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I was wondering ... how long has this chroot mania been going on? I believe I've counted at least three separate loons on LHB in the last six months. Did it exist before then?
If not, then perhaps there is hope. These people have finally given up on UseDistroX(TM) altogether, and are simply flailing around for an alternative. Needless to say, it's the most pathetic alternative available.
"I was wondering ... how long has this chroot mania been going on? I believe I've counted at least three separate loons on LHB in the last six months. Did it exist before then?"
Well, this just shows that the Unix philosophy is still pretty much alive and kicking, doesn't it? Got a problem with the software? Don't fix the problem where it actually is. Rather, just put a truckload of duct-tape over it until you can get it to sort of work for you.
Proper software engineering practice is for squares.
JoeMonco, more like, "keep using duct-tape and fooling folks into thinking it's fixed".
Well, you could at least vote EightMillionApplications(TM) up.
Don't forget, though. Chroot is useful, except where it isn't. Chroot is the best way to avoid installing an entirely new OS, except that it isn't. Chroot is exactly what you have to do when running an XP program inside Win7, except that it isn't.
And, best of all, there's a screen-shot of chroot (OOo, ooh!) inside a Ubuntu LTS! And it's BLUE!
Of course, that might have something to do with fiddling around with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS settings. But it proves the point.
Since the guy's so incredibly persistent, and since he ignores each and every problem advanced by anybody, you might want to add MagicPixieDust(TM) to this one.
<b>Since the guy's so incredibly persistent, and since he ignores each and every problem advanced by anybody, you might want to add MagicPixieDust(TM) to this one.</b>
Done.
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