On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:10:32 -0700
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/16/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > If I use -nptlonly instead of +, do I still risk incompatibilities?
> > >
> > > with ntplonly you WILL have problems. With 'nptl', you can say the apps 
> > > which
> > > implementation to use. Great for broken/old apps with problems. BUT if you
> > > use ntplonly you can NOT go back, and if an app has a problem with nptl, 
> > > you
> > > are out of luck. So, just remove ntplonly from your make.conf and 
> > > everything
> > > will be fine. Since nptlonly should not be set by default, removing 
> > > nptlonly
> > > should be as good as -nptlonly ;)
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> Well, I'm certainly no example of doing things right but I've been
> running nptlonly for quite awhile now and I personally don't know of
> any problems caused by running that way. Theer may certainly be apps
> that don't like it but maybe I don't run them. I don't know. It works
> for me.
 


Earlier, I was going to send the same thought but I, too, am not a shining 
example of 'linux master'. I am running a ~x86 nptlonly system with no problems 
that I can attribute to it being a nptlonly system


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