I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the shared library discussions we've had on this list.
"A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with dependency version hell. " OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros. So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the program! Un-beeeeee-lievable. The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply in software nowadays. ron
