You can really upgrade or downgrade DOS/Win3.1 without caring about the correlation between the kernels, the compilers and the glibc. I failed to see the same convinience with Window$ or Linux.
Yeah, it's the good old DOS, but your majesty and honour, everyghing was so freaking mutually independent and simple. That's what one should called a really low if not zero Total Cost of Ownership.
m.w.chang wrote:
maybe one should upgrade glibc via Knoppix in a similar way. that surely should enable a clean upgrade. but...
how could you get rpm to remove the old.glibc.rpm in an alternative root, checkinstall the new one into it?
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