Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
Change your terminology to 'pre-compiled' and
're-compiled' because it
really doesn't relate to code being proprietary or not, only when it was
compiled. And then you also see why the -devel doesn't matter.
That assumes the Free programs you're rebuilding actually rebuild against the
new version of the library. The #1 reason compat libraries are needed is that
this is not the case (due to API changes).
Kevin Kofler