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Mike Makonnen wrote:
> 2. What happens if I hose one of the libraries?

I always love this one.  The same thing that happens if you hose
your shell, any of your kernel modules get corruptes, you hose
your kernel, you hose any of the files that the boot loader looks
in before actually loading the kernel, you hose init, or you hose
mount, or any one of dozens of other files.

It's not like linking shared gives you any kind of statistically
significant increase in the number of single points of failure or
the overall MTBF for the overall system.


> I think Gordon has already answered them adequately:
> 
> 1. If you don't want it, turn it off

This is probably the most important statement anyone can make on
the issue, IMO.

-- Terry