On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:30:41PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>Don't you want people the freedom to choose what they like best ?

There is no choice involved. If you install a shared library, it 
will be used by default on most systems. Few people know of or 
consider the choice.

>There are valid reasons for using shared libraries, ie. not the 
>need to rebuild applications on library update or saving resources.

Saving resources is not relevant here. libixp is so small that 
the resources required to dynamically link it are greater than 
those required to statically link it. As for updating the 
library without relinking applications, it's of arguable merit 
(and it's been argued here many times).

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Kris Maglione

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