Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez@gmail.com writes:
It's a 'must have', for some packages.
e.g. GLIBC: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linu...
A lot of features can't be used, because 2.6.18(3.5 years old) is the base kernel.
This is not true. It only means that some features must be tested for at runtime, instead of just assuming they are present. The only effect is that glibc is slightly larger.
Andreas.