Fedora 28 Looking To Replace Glibc's libcrypt With libxcrypt

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Fedora 28 Looking To Replace Glibc's libcrypt With libxcrypt

10 January 2018, 07:10 AM

Phoronix: Fedora 28 Looking To Replace Glibc's libcrypt With libxcrypt

As upstream Glibc is working on deprecating libcrypt for its eventual removal from the codebase, Fedora developers are looking at using libxcrypt for their hashing/encoding crypto library...

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10 January 2018, 04:20 PM

First it's the RPC stuff (obsoleted by libtirpc), then libnsl and NIS stuff (obsoleted by libtirpc-enabled libnsl and friends), and now libcrypt. I wonder what's the next one to be replaced. If this trend continues, glibc will eventually get fully replaced.
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