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Indeed. ldd any substantial GTK app and scroll past the dependencies. They are huge. Most of them are shared across applications. Desktop would be crippled if
by cplease 12y ago
Indeed. ldd any substantial GTK app and scroll past the dependencies. They are huge. Most of them are shared across applications.
Desktop would be crippled if every app was compiled with the whole stack of X, toolkit and Gnome libraries linked in statically.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoI'd argue that libraries like GTK were only allowed to become so bloated because dynamic linking masked their true impact on the system. If static linking were the norm, we'd be using much simpler, cleaner libraries because people would think twice about adding 100+ megabytes to their binaries for basic GUIs.