DragonFly 3.4 release planning

Max Herrgard herrgard at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 08:51:53 PDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 05:22:29PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> Besides, this whole static binaries in / at all cost business seems to be
> based on groundless fears.
> Other Unix-like operating systems have been using dynamic libraries for their
> root filesystems for many years and I have yet to encounter a case where
> this caused real issues and rescue binaries saved the day.

Hm, I often do quick and hackish test-boots where I skip
installing/copying /usr, but where I still need some basic pokeing
around (ie use /bin and /sbin binaries). How would I do this with
dynamic libraries? Keep them in / somehow?


Cheers,
Max



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