On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Milan Jurik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does somebody see benefit in keeping these libs in Illumos:
>
> libresolv.so.1 - ABI incompatible with libresolv.so.2, I think it has
> been obsoleted from 1997 or something like that. Removal breaks 15 years
> old binaries but it can be easily added manually if necessary.

Looking on my systems, it's clear that there's still occasional use
of libresolv.so.1 on sparc. Binary compatibility goes back a long
way - I use 20+ year old binaries on a daily basis. Whether it needs
to be kept in Illumos is another matter - but I do think that if you take
it out you need to have a legacy vault for retired software.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/


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