Right now the only thing in the LSB is the base X libraries, ... This means applications using GNOME or KDE libraries can only be LSB-compliant by static linking, which makes them huge, and in some cases GNOME/KDE libraries don't support static linking because they want to dynamically load them for various reasons.  -   Stacey Quandt     Quotes
Right now the only thing in the LSB is the base X libraries, ... This means applications using GNOME or KDE libraries can only be LSB-compliant by static linking, which makes them huge, and in some cases GNOME/KDE libraries don't support static linking because they want to dynamically load them for various reasons. Stacey Quandt
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