Le Tuesday 28 August 2007 00:17:40 Bruce Sass, vous avez écrit : > On Mon August 27 2007 04:05:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > And > > it's no way we will accept the statically linked version in Debian. > > Why is that?
Quoting [1]: External libraries Many programs make use of external libraries - after all, there's no need to reinvent the wheel every time. The distribution tar ball should not include those libraries (source code or object code), or at least should also allow an external copy of the library to be used. On one hand, including dozens if not hundreds of copies of the same library wastes a lot of space, and on the other hand, if this library has a security flaw, each copy needs to be fixed (the classical example was a security flaw in the zlib library.) For the same reasons, dynamic linking should be preferred over static linking whenever possible: less wasted disk and memory, and a dynamic library can just be replaced on a security upgrade, while applications with statically linked libraries must be recompiled. [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/SoftwarePackaging Other general purpose questions like that should not take place in -devel but in -mentors for instance. Romain -- Think the word peace means coming together ? Peace is a diploma you get in the cementry Seen ? On top of your grave, that is marked: "Here lies the body of John Strokes Rest in Peace" Seen ? And I and I know many of you little brothers, Who wouldn't like to hear your daughter say: "Just going to give away a little peace" A Bongo cliping ya no seen ? So you can imagine how defective the word peace is, Seen ? - Peter Tosh - Live at One Live Peace Concert '78
