On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:33 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. April 2009 11:27:29 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > I think among the Arch userbase, virtually nobody uses anything older > > than 2.6.27. We always announce to be "bleeding-edge", so IMO there > > should be no problem in supporting newer kernels only. > > So those who use older kernels (why ever) just need to recompile glibc with > their favourite settings? That would be acceptable imho. So, if I'm updating from a system that hasn't been rebooted for half a year or so, I won't even get a chance to do so: pacman -S glibc, wait a few minutes for the update, and then everything says: "FATAL: Kernel too old". Don't do it, this will break lots of systems.
