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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:37:26PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of rescue disks, _there's_ a good example of how
> > to trim libraries...
> 
> Since you are interested in minimizing libraries, you 
> might be surprised to find that BL3 happily boots with 
> no libraries.  You can delete the entire /lib directory 
> and it still works.  Many of the utilities are linked to 
> libc5 so they won't work if you delete the /lib directory.  
> But the foundation works fine -- you can even run an 
> Xterminal without the libraries.

That _really_ surprises me. I would have thought, at the
very least, that an xterm would need the xlibs.

Lee