Shared libraries are not necessary

[Gary Bisaga x4219]

mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>I have already proved that
>
>	1) its space saving is negligible
>
>	2) shared libraries dose not help software version up
>	   from /etc/hosts to DNS
Sorry, I haven't seen either of these "proved".  You obviously believe it but
that doesn't mean it's proved.

In article <1991May16.173305.11403 at decuac.dec.com>, mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> 	Heaving X windows out or putting it on a diet would *REALLY* reduce
> the amount of required disk space. To forestall flamage about all of X'
> vaunted "functionality" take a look at the size of MGR and the "functionality"
> it offers before you follow-up, please.
> 
> 	Using shared libraries to cure X-windows bloat is really stupid, ...
If I was of the suspicious bent, I would call this erecting a straw man.  The fact
that X has problems, or for that matter the fact that DNS has problems, has nothing
to do with whether shared libraries are useful.