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From: steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Gerakines)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Something positive for a change: FreeBSD 1.0 shared libs are working
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Date: 18 Nov 93 01:35:55 GMT
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>Jordan K. Hubbard says:
>[shared libs]
>Doesn't look like much, but 15K blocks is still 15K blocks, and I
>should easily be able to get another 20MB or so off of this once my
>enormous collection of X11 contrib compiled stuff and xview clients
>are also compiled shared.

I was curious.  When shared libraries are released for the general
public, are the FreeBSD folks planning on keeping both the static and
shared binary packages on-line?  For the bigger packages, I'm really
starting to enjoy just picking up the binaries when it's all I really
need.  Makes life much easier for me.  Perhaps the statically bound
stuff will just eventually be phased out?

Thanks,
- Steve
steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us