From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails From: "Federico G. Benavento" Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:29:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60604181454l35bd6917v8a6169c6befd9baa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d86c20e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I prefer to remain somewhat agnostic on the topic. I've not heard > particularly convincing arguments in favor of them and the best and > most reasonable argument not to have them is increased complexity. > what about what actually happens in practice? 10 programs needing 10 different versions of the same shared lib; or when you want to install some binary app that needs libxxx.1.1.4b.so, but you have libxx.1.3.4a.so. Even when you try to keep things clean you end up in a mess. btw, the fact that Plan 9 could deal better with the crap of shared libs doesn't mean they are good at anything. Federico G. Benavento PS: ldd on your favorite app can be fun, if feel masochistic.