Re: Stop shipping static libraries for NetBSD

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:50:15PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> 
> >I object to such a change, because that would make it impossible to  
> >build
> >static binaries.
> 
> I guess that begs the question... "So?"
> 
> What is so inherently good about static binaries?  I can think of a  
> few reasons why they're not so great.  Please tell me my they're so  
> wonderful.

They're self-contained. As they don't depend of code from other files
at runtime, they're less exposed to accidental breackage or security issues.
I can see a value for this in some embeeded, or non-embeeded applications.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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