On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:47:59PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:46:47PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Of course, obviously---for software where there is a choice, but for > > software which can not be built from source because it is closed or > > not redistributable once modified (which seems to be the case with > > Opera), putting a statically linked version into the archive sounds > > like the correct solution. > > and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the > pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things > afaik, motif iirc. > Yes, but even though it was done in the past, why on earth should it be done today? Back then, there were no alternatives. Today there are many. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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