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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers
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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:56:25 -0400
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At Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:48:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than
>> the kernel?  I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge
>> and remerged glibc.
>
> Most probably no danger here. The interfaces of the kernel seldom
> change that radical that a John Doe user would have to care. Also, most
> software is supposed to leave the kernel headers alone anyway. And you
> took care of glibc, so that's probably not going to cause headaches.
> Since that was a re-emerge, it won't produce a new interface for
> userland.
>
> I just explained why I found the first answer to your question somewhat
> lacking of argumentation and the further answers to my post then were
> just plain wrong. The moral is to never believe people who just claim
> stuff without giving a good reasoning.

thanks for the explanation.
allan
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