Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: >> Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with >> > shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs? >> >> If they aren't used by other programs, there's no need to produce a >> library. Perhaps it's convienient to create static libraries during >> compilation and link against these, but shared libraries are of no use. > What if there are many binaries (10s of them) in your package, and you > want to use shared libs purely for resource efficiency (disk and > memory)?
You're right, that's an other reason for a shared library. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
