* Stardate: 2001-10-25 09:09
* Incoming subspace signal from "Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" :

> Message-ID: 9r7lm7$qkn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mandrake 8.1 ships with libc 5 files so that older programs ( eg Word
> Perfect 8 for Linux) can use them ( they are on the third disk and are
> not istalled by default). HOwever they neglected to also include the
> ld.so files (ld-linux.1.9.5) so it is impossible for those older
> programs to actually load the libc 5 libraries. 
> It works to use the ld.so rpm from Mandrake 7.2, but why would they
> include the libc5 files and not the loader files?

This was also the case in 8.0. I put it on alt.os.linux.mandrake about 10 
months ago, seems nobody noticed.

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