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> Ah, there's some classic Drepper. I think it's actually quite appropriate that the maintainer of the software that (in one form or the other) is present on h
by _pmf_ 13y ago
> Ah, there's some classic Drepper.
I think it's actually quite appropriate that the maintainer of the software that (in one form or the other) is present on hundreds of millions of devices is a bit conservative.
- fidotron 13y agoA massive proportion of Linux devices are actually using Bionic or uClibc instead of the gnu libc. While superficially the reasoning may seem to be purely technical, freedom from Drepper is not an unacknowledged feature of these alternatives.
- tobiasu 13y agoglibc has a fork/flavour called eglibc because Ulrich consistently refused to integrate work that wasn't relevant to his big iron Red Hat server world. For example he's "famous" for refusing to patch ldd to work with any posix shell instead of bash: https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266 https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266 It was recently fixed, but only after more considerate guys took over maintainership...