From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:03:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F2781F.2000809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lstqgu$ktg$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 18/08/2014 23:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-08-18, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> In cases like that I would do either of the following:
>>>
>>> 1) Run it inside a VM
>>> 2) run it inside a chroot
>>>
>>> That way you can easily keep everything updated except for that
>>> application.
>>
>> Or better still run it inside a container.
>
> Or better still, demand either a less broken app or one that's
> statically linked.
>
That was my thought too. The app is a visual differ. It's not rocket
science, so what business does it have needing a custom glibc?
My spidey-sense is tingling, I'm wondering what other weirdnesses such
an app might have under the covers
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-18 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-18 18:06 [gentoo-user] Changing glibc Timur Aydin
2014-08-18 18:11 ` Manuel McLure
2014-08-18 18:15 ` Kerin Millar
2014-08-18 18:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-18 19:12 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-18 20:36 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-18 21:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2014-08-18 22:03 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-08-19 2:37 ` Francisco Ares
2014-08-19 7:23 ` Timur Aydin
2014-08-18 19:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Timur Aydin
2014-08-20 6:58 ` Mick
2014-08-18 20:38 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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