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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > and install only the parts you need, which are 
> > > often only 10% of a package.
> >
> > It is safer to install complete packages.
> 
> But that is exactly how you put together BL3

No it isn't.

> Why install the entire glibc package when you need 
> only two files from it?  

Because it is the foundation library for everything else.
The move from libc5 to glibc2 is major -- you need to be
absolutely sure all the bits are right.

> Or all of xbin?

It is OK to cherry-pick the xbin from Slackware 4.0.
However, I do not recommend this for an xbin in a
more recent Slackware. 

> > I recommend You install glibc 2.3.  It's no bigger
> > than 2.2 and more and more stuff is requiring it now.
> 
> The main file itself is probably considerably bigger, 

libc-2.3.1.so   1262496               

> they just left out some of the files ending in .a.  

The .a files are just used for compiling.

Cheers,
Steven



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