United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

[Net Llama!]

Nothing.  Just that most distros released in the past 6 months use 
glibc-2.2.x, rather than glibc-2.1.x.

Michael Hipp wrote:
> What happened 6 months ago to fix this problem?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:41 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>You *should* be able to.  That doesn't guarentee that you'll be able to.
>>  You'll prolly still see all sorts of deps errors, but in many cases
>>they can be safely ignored.
>>
>>Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry.  I guess that's coming from the fact that I haven't kept up
>>>lately.  I didn't realize MDK was separate from RH, nor did I realize
>>>that I wasn't still tied to the barrel by choosing COL...  I guess I
>>>got so used to rolling my own RPM's since CheckInstall came out that I
>>>never thought to try anything else.  On the same note, I just recently
>>>was having troubles with my favorite Audio editor, Audacity, and when I
>>>followed the request of the developer to install their RPM's,
>>>everything worked.  I thought I got off easy, seeing as I had forgotten
>>>the goat and my sacrificial blade was extra dull anyway.  So you're
>>>saying that on COL311, I should be able to run most current RPM's?  Woo
>>>Hoo!  I thought Heaven was waiting for me to die!
>>>
>>>Thanks, Llama.  You made my day!
>>>
>>>begin  "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
>>>(Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:04:48 -0400 (EDT))
>>>
>>>
>>>>Most binaries will happily run on just about
>>>>any distro released in the past 6 months.
>>>>Second, Mandrake stopped basing their distro on Redhat well over a year
>>>>ago.
>>>

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