yes, my above comment wasn't phrased that well. but do distinguish between a plugin system where you load so's or DLLs to extend an app, and an application that

yes, my above comment wasn't phrased that well. but do distinguish between a plugin system where you load so's or DLLs to extend an app, and an application that has dynamic linking against them, where the linker handles this. So basically something like apache modules - either you can load the module or not - vs something like "cannot find symbol foo in foo.so.0.1."