Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, James Le Cuirot wrote:

> That makes it slightly more awkward for binaries you may have
> installed manually.

It is impossible to support all third-party binaries, especially if
they link against non-standard libraries because they aim for bug
compatibility with another distro.

Users manually installing such things can easily create any needed
compatibility symlinks in their /usr/local/lib*.

Ulrich