Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:37:45 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: libkse*.a in 7.0 Message-ID: <1389.1196285865@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:10:22 CST." <20071128211022.GA74762@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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In message <20071128211022.GA74762@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Davis writes : >The one set of consumers that would not be >addressed is those who have statically linked, threaded binaries using >libkse. I agree that we should make it hard to link such. But I also think that if that is what keeps people from upgrading from N.x to (N+1).x, then they have much bigger problems on their hands and are probably better served by staying on N.x >I believe that removing libkse*.a has little downside and leaves the way >open for either removing or enhancing the KSE system and is the right >thing to do. Fully agree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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