PC-BSD

Raphael Marmier raphael at marmier.net
Wed Apr 27 15:42:48 PDT 2005


Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:13:18 +0200
"Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're supposed to use common sense with these things. Standard 
libraries are not packaged in the application namespace. Take a look at 


	OK - so you only package the libs with unstable APIs :)


GNUStep for more information on how this actually works.


	Seriously though - why package a lib in a special place for
an application instead of just statically linking the bits the application
uses ?
In the case several instance of the application are run at the same 
time, you would waste a great deal of memory with statically linked lib.

Raphael





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