Hello,

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:02 PM Eric Myhre <h...@exultant.us> wrote:
> For starters, I'd like to offer a new name for this: "path-agnostic
> binaries".  I've tossed the "relocatable" term out among a few dozen
> different groups of people now, and while it hits home and self-explains
> to about 60% of them instantly, the other 40% seem to think it sounds
> like "position independent code"/PIE and thus find it confusing.
> "Path-agnostic", while a bit more of a mouthful, seems to successfully
> avoid all confusion.

I completely agree on this naming. I've mostly heard / read "relocatable"
in the context of binary code.

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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