Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

> It's certainly not worth breaking backwards compatbility over... you screw
> every shared library that *calls* libc, requiring their major numbers to
> be bumped, too.

Ahh yes, that's the reason we don't want to bump major versions.

However, NetBSD ships with:

	XFree86
	system libraries/binaries
	pkgsrc (binary packages)

Why can't we recompile them all?  We already do most of that, I
believe.

As for third-party libraries 1.4.1 -> 1.5, we're already screwed on
i386 since we move to ELF there.

So, if we are going to do this, it sounds like a damned good time to
do it.

--Michael