Eliminating static binaries (Was: Unwanted RPM dependencies)

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:52:41PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
>> - /sbin/ldconfig (yes, even this one!)
> 
> I am not sure, but wouldn't that be a bit dangerous? What would be the
> gains?

Space.  And speed.

What would be the loss?  A broken environment where only
ldconfig works, with no shell and no init, is still
unusable for recovery.  Boot DVDs and USB pens are more
user friendly and flexible in these cases.

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