On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:56:50AM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
> This may still be a useful consideration for Fedora itself.  Would we
> alienate anyone if Fedora removed glibc-static?

It would break supermin which compiles a tiny statically linked init.

Actually as of today we are using dietlibc instead of glibc-static on
every architecture that Fedora supports resulting in massive savings
in code size and performance:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=870395
https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/README#L148-L154

Rich.

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