too much dynamic loading?

[James McKenzie]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:03:09PM -0400, Steven Edwards wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> As libjpeg and libpng bumped their major versions in the last months
>>> I had to adjust some of my library requires in my wine.spec file.
>>>
>>> This caused me thinking if it is really necessary to dynamically
>>> load nearly every library.
>>>
>>> Can we make some of those direct linking? libjpeg and libpng
>>> and some other lowlevel libraries might be useful.
>>>       
>> +1 for static linking them.
>>     
>
> No static linking either, its the nightmare of security maintainers ;)
>
>
> But which distro doesnt have libjpeg or libpng? or libX11.so, libXext.so., libncurses.so...
>   
How about MacOSX or Solaris?  They don't come with these. 

James McKenzie