Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

> > 2) Runtime linking.  This is overhead at application startup time.
> >    Something that embeds an SQL engine should not, I think, start up too
> >    frequently.  Am I wrong?

[Bernd Zeimetz]
> We're talking about amarok here. As a medi aplayer I could imagine it
> will be starte several times per day...

Depends: amarok-common, amarok-engine-xine | amarok-engine-yauap,
    unzip, kdelibs4c2a, libc6, libgcc1, libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1,
    libglib2.0-0, libgpod3-nogtk | libgpod3, libifp4, libkarma0,
    libmtp7, libmysqlclient15off, libnjb5, libpq5, libqt3-mt,
    libruby1.8, libsdl1.2debian, libsqlite3-0, libstdc++6, libtag1c2a,
    libtunepimp5, libusb-0.1-4, libvisual-0.4-0

...I don't think the 'startup overhead of a shlib' argument holds up.
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