I think the point is that maintainers and developers now have a choice of whethe...

hedora · 2025-05-04T21:59:57 1746395997

There has been a choice between shared and static linking since before the Linux kernel existed.

What system are you talking about?

patrakov · 2025-05-05T02:42:38 1746412958

Any modern distro. Static libraries are simply not built anymore, so you have nothing to link with, unless you rebuild the whole subsystem yourself.

hedora · 2025-05-06T16:20:22 1746548422

If that's true, it'll be the second thing I check after making sure a distro I'm considering isn't using systemd.

Anyway, you had me worried for a minute, but:

Click on a C library. Click on the *-dev package. There's a 1:1 mapping of .so to .a in the packages I spot checked.

Now I'll go back to enjoying Devuan.