[Portland] Statically linkable library

[Peter Åstrand]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Aniket Ray wrote:

> I wanted to know whether there are any plans to create a statically
> linkable library for the utilities provided by xdg-utils command line. 

I'm not sure I understand the question: All XDG utilities are shell 
scripts, so there's no need to make them static. Why would a library be 
better?


> The problem that we are facing with the DAPI interface is that the DBUS
> is not currently deployed on a vast number of present day Linux
> installations. Installation would require linux-root permissions and as
> such would be a huge hassle for desktop users.

What's DAPI? 

Can you describe what you are trying to achieve?

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