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		pjc50 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime Part of the point of Debian and Redhat style package management was to be able to assume that if a dependency package was installed, that would provide specific libraries on the target system in a specific place.

max-privatevoid 12 months ago [–]

And those assumptions often end up being wrong. There will always be differences between distros. Ensure, don't assume.

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