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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:46:50
Message-Id: 4B784490.80908@metux.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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3 > no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything
4 > everytime a security bug is found.
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6 That's the job of the distro buildsystem. Ah, and that dramatically
7 minimizes the chance that things break apart (i still remember
8 the old times when libc updates tended to be dangerous).
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10 > Oh - and didn't you just complain about bloat? Nothing means
11 > more bloat than static binaries.
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13 As already said, all this under the axiom that libs are *small*
14 and complex/redundant things are done by separate services.
15 Perhaps you might have a look at Plan9 and how its done there.
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18 cu
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21 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/
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23 cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: info@×××××.de skype: nekrad666
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>