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Message-ID: <50619711.5000102@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:35:45 +0200 From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@...too.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: filesystem layout 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. lu
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