You folks do all realize that almost all of this is trying to work around the fact that Ulrich Drepper is cramming dynamically-linked glibc up our uh, software

You folks do all realize that almost all of this is trying to work around the fact that Ulrich Drepper is cramming dynamically-linked glibc up our uh, software stack, right? Linus doesn’t break userland. A tarball is a deployment strategy if someone isn’t dicking with /usr/lib under you.