[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>Hear hear.  The dependency tree for ANYTHING that uses even tiny parts
>>of Gnome is insane, because the dependency tree for Gnome itself is
>>insane.  (I remember there was one period when you could not compile
>>Gnome from source on a machine that did not already have Gnome
>>installed, because somehow they'd managed to get *VERTICAL* cyclic
>>dependencies.)
> 
> This is completely inexcusable.  Don't these people do any testing?

One presumes they tested it, but they'd clearly never done a properly
controlled release process that included building it in a clean testing
environment.



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