lib lists
Thanks for the lists.
Dan's lists seems to be heavily influenced by the desktops, so comparing
the two is interesting.
I've included libdb in the spec because it provides some of the SUS interfaces.
What is the difference between libdb.so.2 and libfb2.so.2? Which one should
we go with?
Similar thing for ncurses.3.4 and ncurses.4
libstdc++ probably should be in our list if we manage to get C++ defined
at all. We have to visit name mangling rules and .init/.fini behavior though.
It would be difficult to disallow C++ though.
libz seems like it should be in.
libext2fs shows up a few times, but it doesn't seem like a general purpose
library that we need to include.
libnsl contains yp routines. Are that many programs actually using that API?
libXmu should be added to the list of graphics libs.
Since we have stated that we aren't going to get into the desktop area, it
seems like we can automatically filter out all of the desktop related
libraries. This would also seem to include the PBM libs even though they
show up high on Dan's like.
I wonder how many programs link in libraries that they don't actually need.
How many of these libraries have a stable formal description that we can
reference?
Stuart
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