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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Chimera Linux uses musl libc, Void Linux has the option of musl libc, and of course Alpine uses musl libc.

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[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Gentoo also offers it as an option. If you're very bored and curious about what doesn't work under specific versions of musl, you can peruse the Gentoo compatibility tracker bugs..

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

So, 6 MUSL bugs for all of Gentoo?

And three of them are the same just for different versions of MUSL. And reading the bug report, it seems like a commit has been created and is awaiting review.

If all that is true, we have our answer. MUSL works with everything.

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[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Not quite. Those are trackers: lists of bugs. If you open one, you'll see a list of individual package bugs that are blocking these ones—up to a couple of dozen unresolved in some cases. Still, it isn't that long a list, and a lot of the packages are minor or obscure.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago

Ah. Thanks.

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

The list is definitely longer than that. I switched to musl overlay about three years ago and I couldn't daily drive it. I guess the six comes from no one is using it.

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