Re: Why is libc5 going away and glibc gonna be "It".

[Jason Costomiris]

On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 11:58:14PM -0500, Scott Kindley wrote:
: IMHO, if libc5 was to become unsupported it should phase out over a couple of
: versions while the interim versions maintain backward compatibility.

libc5 still works just fine.  If you have libc5 bins, install the libc5 
package.  There, now you have a libc5 that those bins can be run with.

The whole point of having both is to be able to do a *migration* away 
from libc5.  RH5 achieves this goal, as it has support for both.

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