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Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)



Hi Steve

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Russ has described copying *binaries* out of packages and running them
> elsewhere. I've done that too, from time to time. This is one of the
> things made possible by the ABI contract being followed.

And nothing in that requires that the interpreter matches.  Because
glibc is clever enough to allow running the interpreter standalone.  So
in any way you can just call:

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /bin/ls

Bastian

-- 
Oh, that sound of male ego.  You travel halfway across the galaxy and
it's still the same song.
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