"T.J. Duchene" <tj@???> writes:
> On 2016-03-01 20:22, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>> "T.J. Duchene" <tj@???> writes:
>> > On 03/01/2016 08:15 AM, dng-request@??? wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> > I'd just like to offer my opinions on the subject of Debian/Devuan
>> > libraries, linking and so on. This is just an opinion, so no one has
>> > to agree by any stretch of the human imagination, nor do I feel it
>> > necessary to defend it.
>>
>> It's not "just an opinion", it asserts quite a few things which are at
>> least worded in a very scarily sounding and vague way, if not outright
>> wrong.
>
> I am sorry you took it that way. I was just keeping it "simple" as I
> said. =)

And I disgree with your assessment of this being "a simplified"
description, instead of a fairly complicated and seriously deceptive
one.

>> As single example: Applications aren't "compiled with" dynamic
>> libraries, they're combined with them at runtime which happens in the
>> same way regardless of the system they were compiled on.
>
> I am not trying to be rude or condescending, but if you prefer a more
> qualified answer to show that I know what I am talking about, then I
> must disagree with you. They are not "combined" with anything except
> a set of calls,

Oh, they are. Try running pmap -d $$ in a shell to see this.