Re: Debian target audience

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@is5.nyu.edu>]

> > The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor,
> > the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other
> > newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm. 
> 
> How do you mean? You can install the *libraries* just fine, it's just
> the development versions that fail to install.

That's exactly what I meant, sorry if it wasn't clear.

> 
> And even then, why not install lib5-altdev? Then there is no problem
> whatsoever.
> 

I am sorry to say, but you are wrong. Even on this list there were
several postings regarding this matter. There are several known 
problems and who knows how many unknown. You just can't afford to
experiment with "production" system this way. Anyway, I could take some
burden on myself to compile libc5 counterparts, but on my 486DX2/66 with
2k/sec connection it would take years. 

Alex Y.

> -- 
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
> #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
> $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
> lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
> #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

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