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Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?
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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.
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.
Ah. Thanks.
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.