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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:42:00
Message-Id: 4F94509B.3060904@xunil.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Am 22.04.2012 20:18, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
2
3 > I think you're a bit confused about how shared libraries work. The
4 > major reason for their existence is that when you update a shared
5 > library, everything that was linked against it will use the updated
6 > version. So if you installd glibc-2.15, all packages will now use that
7 > version instead of 2.14.
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9 Yes, you and Volker are right, I wasn't fully aware of that fact.
10 Thanks, Stefan