On 2013-09-26 08:53, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Some Arch packages even provide static libraries for convenience, such > as gcc and glibc. And unfortunately a few higher-level packages also > provide static libraries because their maintainers did not notice the > waste of space...
Well, static libraries are not a waste of space if it was intentional. Static linking should be preferred for a number of reasons[0], they should be preferred in any sane Linux distribution (of which, unfortunately I can't name any at the moment until stali comes out). 0: http://sta.li/faq
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