Question about runtimes

[Mark Naughton]

> Because then every file in the runtime would need its own list of
> dependencies. Your calculator "only" needs libfoo, but libfoo needs
> libbar, libbar needs libbaz and libquux, etc.
> 
> If every file in every package has to maintain its own dependency list
> then it's not really a package anymore.

The list of the dependencies is already in the ELF header. You can disover every single dependency needed by an application with ldd.