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On 08/09/2012 04:02 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Luca Barbato wrote: |
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>> Repeat after me: having your first process require anything more |
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>> than libc is stupid and dangerous. |
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> Why do you say? |
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Because libc supposedly should be stable, other libraries are a bit more |
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prone to radical changes and other annoyances. You wouldn't like to |
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reboot your system if you replace/update dbus or glib, do you? |
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> And why is libc different from other libraries, say libuuid or |
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> libext2fs? I mean: Why allow pid 1 to require libc, it could |
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> just be statically linked. |
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Actually statically linked initial process would be another reason why |
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you'd like to NOT use large libraries and in large number. |
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Obviously if you are thinking about desktop and not system in which |
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replacing kernels should be done w/out downtime (qnx and some linux |
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patches let you do that) it isn't a huge concern. |
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Yet I'm not used to have to reboot after issuing emerge -u world and |
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most of the times I don't have even to restart X... |
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