At 10:11 -0500 1998-12-09, Avery Pennarun wrote:
Worse, what if it turns out you _do_ need a recent libc6? With libc5, I remember all kinds of obscure problems you could have if you used a later-libc5 binary with an earlier-libc5 system. Does libc6 have problems like that?
It isn't supposed to. I agree that the verioned dependency is bad, but that damage is done, recompiling all those packages will drive the release into '99, which is IMHO more damaging.
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