Re: Stop shipping static libraries for NetBSD

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

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:11:12PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> >
> >Was that a proposal to abandon /rescue as well?
> >I second the idea that for embedded applications, statically linked  
> >things are useful.
> >
> >Think crunchgen (which we actually use for sysinst, too).
> 
> The proposal is stop shipping; not stop using.  Anything in the build  
> can
> continue to use them, as can anyone doing their own builds.  The  
> proposal
> is to not ship them so the average user won't be able to link static  
> programs.

Why make the life of the average user which needs static binaries harder ?

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