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Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies



On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:26:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> > Alternative 1:
> > 
> > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot
> > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still
> > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works.
> 
> Assuming it supports your hardware.  Which it is not entirely likely to do. 
> For instance:
> 
> Many video cards require XFree 4.3.x or above.  They require agpgart in the
> kernel.  They require iwconfig and other wireless tools.  There are a whole

Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around
that uses DRI ? Hell, libc5 was abandoned well before DRI even existed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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