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Really? Because I update libraries all the time on CentOS, Debian, etc. and very rarely does that require an update of all the packages that depend on it. With
by danudey 16y ago
Really? Because I update libraries all the time on CentOS, Debian, etc. and very rarely does that require an update of all the packages that depend on it. With glibc, you occasionally have to restart services (cron, ssh, etc), but that's about it.
Not sure what the Gentoo guys are doing differently.
- doki_pen 16y agohttp://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/22/shared-object-version http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/22/shared-object-version Perhaps upstream is doing some magic. Like applying patches to the distros official version and making sure it's compatible before distributing a binary.