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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
>>I am amazed at how poorly library dependence is done in modern operating
>>systems.
>>
>>Simple programs end up with huge lists of dependencies, unless you
>>complete forego everything in a particular framework.
> 
> 
> 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?

Peace...  Sridhar