On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:18PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > bugzilla it against rpmlint, if you like to. Ok, that's what I'll do. > > Another reason may be the efficiency, as as demonstrated by Enrico > > numbers on tiny daemons, linking statically may lead to much more > > efficient executables. > What some people call efficiency, I call rending a distro unmaintainable > and pimping "Linux" - To me, it's not much different from pimping a car > by installing an oxygen bottle to "make it faster". It may not be at the distro level. But I think that we shouldn't prevent users to link statically their apps when it makes them faster. > Well, your needs, i.e. "cross-distro binaries", are far from being > exotic. Many people before you went into trap you still seem to be > trapped into, before you, so be it :-) I really don't understand what trap you are speaking about. I statically commpile a model on a computer then copy it over to other computers (which may have different shared libraries or even not the libraries at all) and run it (with different parameters of course) using a simple script to drive all the runs. What problem is there with that? -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
