On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:40:44PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:35 -0500, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote: > > Another question--barring that, if I do replace glibc, will I have to > > recompile my kernel, wine, etc? > > You would have to recompile EVERYTHING. Replacing glibc is major > surgery. > > It's best to just upgrade to a newer distro. I found this out the hard way. Using debian, dselect is a large-caliber gun aimed directly at the foot of the user, who just wants to install some innocent package. Fortunately, enlightened users know about apt-get, so that if you know how to use the command line, you can just add the --force argument and shoot your foot with equal efficiency. But then freedom is what enables backhoe drivers to work near the edges of ravines. How could we live without it? > Lee -- Joel Roth
