Re: Distros: The Gourmet Food Of GNU/Linux

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 08:39:57 +0500, Stanislav N. aka pztrn wrote:

> So libc update doesn't requiring world rebuild? Whoah, how did they
> managed it?
>
> (of course I mean upgrading to new major version which will produce
> ABI-incompatible libraries and of course not stage4 rebuild but only
> those packages that requires libc in that example, but you should
> know that, right?)

That hasn’t been necessary for about the last quarter century, since
the transition from libc5 to GNU libc 2.x (aka libc6).
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