Firstly i asked about the shared libs to the Xfree team, and there was no
good reason for them being disabled, according to my replies from the list.
Secondly this would be a concern if we were making .pkg OS X style
installed that aren't managed. (i.e. kinda like rpm thought I'll give
rpms quazi management)
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>When an application is linked with a shared version of libXv or
>libXinerama present, the linker will prefer this shared version over
>the static one. The resulting application will fail to run anywhere
>where the shared library does not exist. You might ask why we can't
>just get XFree86 to adopt your patch and start distributing shared
>versions of these libraries. I seriously doubt the XFree86 Core Team
>would accept such a change as:
>
>1. Such changes should be made across all platforms.
>2. There are good reasons why these libraries are not shared.
>3. This has already come up before and Red Hat was bapped for doing
>exactly this.
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