Suggestion: Static libs policy, a draft

[Ulrich Drepper]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> In other words, for all statically linked executables in Core 
>> (recovering, init/boot time etc.), all the libraries which take place in 
>> the correspond static linkage must be present.
> 
> Obviously. This is sort of prerequisite for self-hosting.

Well, not so fast.  There is no reason for booting to require static 
linking.  It might even be that the static linking meanwhile increases 
the ramdisk size (2.7M for both binaries).  In any case, we're not 
booting from floppy disks anymore so this is not an issue.  The static 
linking should be removed where it is currently used for booting.

As for recovery: you're a fool if you trust the binaries on the system 
which has to be covered.  This is what the rescue mode of the boot CD is 
for.

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