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Re: Statically-linked binaries



On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:50:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> There are very good reasons for using dynamic linking whenever possible.

And there are even better reasons for using a little intelligence regarding
when to dynamically link something, and when not to.  Unfortunately, being
a disparate collection of pieces by different people rather than a cohesive
whole, your average Linux distribution rarely pays attention to them.

"Oh, gee, I can't mount /usr.  I guess all your stuff in /bin doesn't work
any more.  Sorry, guess you're not going to be able to fix it, either,
because nothing else works."

And so on.

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