[Info-vax] Shared Objects And DLL Hell

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 11:19:16 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-06-30 22:47:26 +0000, Lawrence D’Oliveiro said:
>> You don’t have that problem with open-source software, only with 
>> proprietary packages.
> 
> False.

    ldo at theon:~> dpkg-query -l '*' | grep -c ^i
    4657

That means I have 4657 separate packages all installed at once on my primary Debian Unstable system. Which remains reliable enough for all my day-to-day work. Typical uptime is about a month, because that’s how often I decide to update things.

How many packages can your Windows or VMS servers have installed at once without crashing?