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Re: L.S.D : Slightly off topic, but not that much...
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 12/Apr/2001, @07:07

Count Zero wrote:
All distros will all have the same gcc version, the same glibc, the same package managment system etc etc.

Unfortunately that's only true if all users are forced to upgrade their whole distribution everytime a new version of KDE is released. And I don't think that this is desirable. For example there are KDE 2.1.1 binary packages for the last four SuSE distributions (6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1). Of course these different distributions don't include the same version of glibc.
Even if there is a LSD you can never assume that all versions of the LSD include the same versions of all libraries. Some LSDs will have older libraries and some will have newer ones. Therefore it will never be possible to just make one binary package for one LSD. You will always have to make packages for LSD 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 and so on and so forth.

Regards,
Ingo

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