Re: tlug: Re: tomsrtbt & glibc (was: Lilo hosed)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rex Walters wrote:
> 
> > Unless you can restore /lib from your rescue floppy.  Note the
> > presence of cpio and dd on the rescue disk, but the conspicuous
> > absence of tar and dump on tomsrtbt.
> 
> This is kinda sorta why everything in /bin and /sbin are supposed to be
> statically linked (/me looks sharply at Scott).  Assuming the boot loader
> works properly, the system will at least start up and file replacement can
> proceed[1].

This seems to be a subjective opinion, one that doesn't seem to be
followed by most Linux distributions, at least.  Wouldn't this lead to
some excessive bloat?

(not that it's a bad idea - it sounds like something I'd think of myself
and then get criticized for bloating the system :) )

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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