On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:04 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > I think that we should make an exception for not shipping static library > for plotting or numerical stuff. Indeed the arguments to avoid static > libraries in that case don't hold as security/bugfixes/nss/glibc are not > an issue in that case. At least the arguments listed at > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html > > don't seem to be relevant for such cases. Moreover the shared libs will be > picked up in priority, so the user must link on purpose with static libraries. > On the other hand it is very handy to be able to rerun a model or a program > that do a graph 5 years later and on other linux boxes. > > Any thoughts on this? Yes, IMNSO, there should not be any exceptions, unless you can prove a significant speed up (say 25%) of static linkage vs. shared libs in a particular case. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
