Re: Status of revivesa

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Izumi Tsutsui 
<tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:16:30PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> >
>> > How many users will actually be screwed seriously with SA,
>> > rather than pleased by advantages on other features?
>>
>> Anyone who naively expects a 3.x or 4.x chroot environment to work.
>> Unfortunately, important things like named were linked to the
>> SA libpthread for *two* major releases...
>
> I don't ask who is, but asking tradeoff against other new features.
>
> How many users will require both 5.0 kernel and
> chroot old environments with pthread binaries?
>
> Why won't they update named while they do their kernels?
> pthread support for named has been disabled in both netbsd-3 and netbsd-4.
>

Updating stuff in the base system is no problem.  Updating five
thousand packages for a supported webcam is a little more annoying.