This 'feature' is called static binaries. Its what prevents reuse of common libraries, and leads to overall bloat.
Please join us in the 21st century. You might actually like it here. On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, m.w.Chang wrote: > Of one thing that I liked about DOS: > > There were little dependence between products. SO you can always > add/remove packages without breaking others. YOu always knew where your > data and the program (games, dbase, wordstar, wordperfect, lotus, > harvard graphics, ...) were (well, at least in my PC). > > Both linux and the new Window$ broke this nice feature. > One basically need to panic whenever you want to remove something from > these multi-tasking, dyanmic binding system, expecting something to break. > > > I read that it's dam easy to build a Xfree86 from scratch. > > But shouldn't one first remove the old version BEFORE > > installing a new version? > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
