Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as > > replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not > > that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement > > of glibc on Linux would be a lot of work and so far none of the > > alternative libc projects had tried to pull that off. > > Why would anyone want to replace GLIBC in the first place? To get rid of > "GNU" in "GNU/Linux"?
Maintainability? Many people (not me, I would lack that level of technical skills) have pointed out that glibc's code is a mess. Ability to distribute under another license? Yes, it might not be a priority in Debian (we are, after all, pro-GPL), but many people would like having a BSD-style libc for Linux... ...Or the good ol' 'Because it's there' stuff? :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
