> > <offtopic> > > Which leads me onto another rant: with todays hard > disk sizes, memory > > capacities and internet speeds, why do we need to > distribute things with > > dependencies? Why not statically compile? My ... > > </offtopic>
If you ever ran a program in Windows XP that looked like 95 or worse? The purpose of dynamic linking isn't just to save disk space. Commercial Linux apps usually give you the option of static or dynamic and comes with the libs necessary for dynamic. There's no reason binaries for open source apps can't be distributed the same way. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
