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From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To: Shawn Leas <sleas AT ixion DOT honeywell DOT com>
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Subject: Re: libc-5.4.22?!?
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On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 03:53:55AM -0500, Shawn Leas wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, david wrote:
> 
> Agreed, RedHat is being irresponsible for having such an old libc5 rusting
> there for compatibility reasons.

I heard they are using a multitude of bugfixes to 5.3.12, so they naturally
don't want to take their customers to the "experimental" 5.4 releases.

(esp. since libc5 is _DEAD_)

> libc5 maybe isn't "going away" anytime soon, but should.  And you're
> right, of course, that it isn't a "slackware" thing, but since debian,
> RedHat,
> Suse (I think)
(not yet ;)

> etc have gone libc6, it is becoming an increasingly "Slackware" thing.

Maybe in the future. Not now. I'd question wether most linux users use libc5
or libc6 (I don't know, but I think thelibc5 part is laaarge)


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