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On 9/12/19 5:23 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Putting the dependencies in RDEPEND means users get stuck with yet
> another copy of the code installed, in addition to the copy that is
> statically linked into all reverse dependencies.
> 
> It's not a very good solution to the problem.
> 

No argument there. The elegant solution to static linking is to not do
it. But I guess that's off the table? So now we're trying to find the
best not very good solution.