Apparently, though unproven, at 15:34 on Monday 07 February 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
> Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. > After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my > desktop and home server and broke both. hehe, I'm safe :-) I've hardmasked >=glibc-2.12 ever since the blatantly untested cock up that was the first testing version of glibc-2.12 hit the tree -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
