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Message-ID: <87d31agsfa.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:09:45 +0200
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: filesystem layout
Luca Barbato <lu_zero@...too.org> writes:
> On 09/25/2012 01:26 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:22:44PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>
>>> Static linking could be dangerous from a security/maintainance
>>> standpoint, but that is me looking at the specific scenarios in which
>>> Gentoo shines.
>>
>>
>> This is a common myth. lazy or ineffective system management is a
>> danger regardless of the linking type.
>
> Spending lots of time unbundling dependencies from packages so they
> could use the up-to-date shared version might bring you to have a bias.
>
> Any system management that force you to reinstall all your packages
> because zlib had a bug doesn't seem efficient.
Note that you need to *restart all programs using zlib* anyway.
So what's the difference between
tar xzpf base.tar.gz
and
tar xzpf zlib.tar.gz
?
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com> http://chneukirchen.org
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