[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root  partition?
    Phil Stracchino 
    phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
       
    Fri Sep 30 11:19:44 CDT 2005
    
    
  
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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