Re: Proposed recompilation to remove dependency on libc6 2.0.7u

[Ben Collins <bmc@visi.net>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:32:12PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > If older packages will work with the newer libc, the user just has to install
> >                                                    ^^^^^^^^
> > > libc6 first.  This will be automatically handled by dselect and apt-get, right?
> > 
> > No, we can't be sure that the user will use apt, since apt was not the
> > standard installation method in hamm.
> 
> But dselect is the standard installation method.

Also let me add that I did an install of the sparc libc6 2.0 base that
updated to the 2.1 and it broke the whole system and had to be
reinstalled. It's not that simple.

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