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The libraries you mentioned are designed so that all changes made are backward compatible. All of the ones that you mentioned excluding libGL are provided by glibc, which is known for backward compatibility.

As for the incompatible versions being required, that would be handled by SONAME versioning, so it should work out fine. If there are somehow conflicts within a SONAME version due to poor planning, there is always the option of putting them in different paths and telling the ELF interpreter to look at paths based on what the game needs.



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