On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:28:00 -0800 (PST) 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > > This is what Linux did (and FreeBSD, too, I think) and it caused no end
 > > of trouble.
 > > 
 > 
 > What trouble?

Aside from "principle of least surprise" (i.e. "um, now which magic version
of _this_ library is ELF?!"), it has caused lossage with their "ports"
tree.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>