> This sounds like more of an issue with Fedora than anything else. If Fedora 24 can't run programs for Fedora 23 (not ancient programs that happened to work on

> This sounds like more of an issue with Fedora than anything else. If Fedora 24 can't run programs for Fedora 23 (not ancient programs that happened to work on Fedora 23, but programs that were specifically built for Fedora 23), that's pretty ridiculous. I've seen issues like this for significantly smaller packages on Ubuntu. One example being exactimage, which for some reason weren't included in one single release around 14.04. Trying to copy a single binary across versions here, would cause similar breakage because of the versions of linked dependencies. I think this is "symptomatic" of the Linux world and actually fairly common in software where source is assumed available and recompiling using that source a feasible task. Things like this is usually just not problem in the real world when things are properly packaged. Again: for .NET the problem was not the dependency itself, but the root bootstrapping process.