Static linking considered harmful

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:27:22PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:10:50PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > But I agree that in other cases it is not always as easy as this one.
> > 
> > Especially since you don't know something is missing until some
> > application blows up when you try it.
> 
> Just use a package manager which will track the dependencies for you?

Uh?  What makes you think the application is installed locally?

  OG.