On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 15:56:04 -0600 
>  Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Is crunch reliable enough that it would be feasible to build a crunched
>  > /sbin, or possibly small sets of crunched utilities for /?  It seems
>  > as though saving the N copies of libc would be worth something - but, of
>  > course, I don't know how much slower or less efficient it may be.
> 
> "Oh s!*t.  Bad sector right in the middle of the common libc!  AAGH!"

I _definitely_ prefer having everything in /bin and /sbin built as 
individual statically-linked executables, for personal 
(development/debug) issues as well as the obvious one that Jason points 
out.

--scott