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Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 06:19:10 PDT 2015


On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Bachsau <web at bachsau.name> wrote:

> What a crap is this? I've been using Arch Linux before and never needed to
> recompile any third party software, just because system packages where
> updated. Software that needs to be reinstalled / recompiled on every little
> operating system upgrade is bad software.


Apple does not care what you think. There's a discussion of rootless on the
apple-x11 list where the number of OS X users who care about building
non-Apple software is stated (by an Apple employee) at around 0.001% ---
they aren't going to care what they break for you.

(The message doesn't seem to have been indexed yet, or I'd link it. Should
show up at http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2015/Oct/index.html)

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