Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes: > Change your terminology to 'pre-compiled' and 're-compiled' because it > really doesn't relate to code being proprietary or not, only when it was > compiled. And then you also see why the -devel doesn't matter. That assumes the Free programs you're rebuilding actually rebuild against the new version of the library. The #1 reason compat libraries are needed is that this is not the case (due to API changes). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list