Matthias Saou wrote: I tried to repackage Red Carpet for
freshrpms.net, but gave up and moved on after seeing all the nasty things Ximian does to build it (plenty of static liking... ugh!).
I'm fairly certain the static linking is done on purpose: to be able to still run redcarpet, in the aftermath of a biffed-up machine with (possibly) missing shared libraries.
-- Rex