Bug#820663: Re #820663: avoid precompiled steam runtime

[Michel Dänzer]

On 24.04.2016 04:29, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
>> The best option might be to allow STEAM_RUNTIME=0 to work (currently,
>> setting this causes Steam to shut down immediately, haven't looked into
>> what's going on there) and use that by default.
> 
> Then you'd have to provide all needed libraries yourself.
> 
> What would else happen if some game needed libpng12.so.0
> and "apt autoremove" just removed it after the 1.6 transition ?

Yes, obviously it would require the steam package to depend on the
packages providing the libraries contained in the Steam runtime.


Anyway, as I mentioned in my previous followup to this bug report,
avoiding the Steam runtime isn't a sufficient solution anyway, since
some games ship their own versions of libraries. But it would at least
improve the situation wrt (security and other) fixes in libraries used
by Steam games.


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