Posted Nov 9, 2005 22:19 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
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XMMS is not part of the base system, so there are any number of ways to accommodate it -- if indeed it is needed at all. Most likely anybody running a Debian GNU/Solarix system will be operating it as a server, and have no use for XMMS.
Dpkg, by contrast, isn't terribly demanding.
BSD libc already used in Debian
Posted Nov 9, 2005 23:53 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
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Are you perhaps confusing glib and glibc?
BSD libc already used in Debian
Posted Nov 10, 2005 12:06 UTC (Thu) by havardk (subscriber, #810)
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Are you perhaps confusing glib and glibc?
Ah, probably, you had me confused there for a while. XMMS is reasonably portable, and runs just fine on Solaris with the Sun libc.