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Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Sat Oct 3 01:46:04 PDT 2015


> On Oct 2, 2015, at 06:19, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Uh, you are greatly misquoting me.

I said that the number of people who probably want to go and mess around with /usr/lib/pam and things like that are around 0.001% of the user base and that we specifically went to great lengths to support even that small minority.


> (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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