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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Glibc package contains the GNU C Library.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>
+The C Library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs.
+This way a programmer doens't need to create his own functions for every
+single task. The most common things like writing a string to your screen
+are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavours:
+dynamic ones and static ones. In short when a program uses a static C
+library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable
+file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not
+contain the code from the C library, but  instead a routine that loads
+the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This
+means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. If you don't
+understand this concept, you better read the documentation that comes
+with the C Library as it is too complicated to explain here in one or
+two lines.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+