On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 13:02, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Denis Moreaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > link (if it's enough) or the old lib installed in "non-expert" install.
> My priority is to have free software working, not proprietary. If
> Raptor people want to have their game working with latest Linux
> distros, fine with me, they need to recompile with latest
> libraries. I'm not gonna do their job.
Going that way is showing the way to the dustbin for the distrib at long
term...
We already have got plenty of closed source apps... and those who ported
them will probably not maintain them for years...
- games : doom, quake, Unreal Tournement, raptor, all games by Loki,...
- utilities : Star Office (even if it's free), Word perfect, AppliX,
XESS,...
- other : old applications whose sources may not be available anymore
(project defunct, site down,...)
As you can find in most distrib libc4 (a.out) and libc5, only for
binaries compatibility, it may be interesting to have such compatibility
libraries for other components (no need to have debug info and dev
libraries).
Another reason is the case of a mixed network where some machines are
using older lib versions but some applications are shared by NFS
(/usr/local is often shared that way).
And, I repeat, the goal is to help clueless beginners to run these
applications... It's the kind of details that may make them flee and go
back to MS Windows...
By the way, if you don't want to have newbies using MDK, the easier way
to do it is to only install in Expert mode ;-)
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Denis Moreaux
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