RPM Upgrade

[Peter Bishop]

On 22 May 2003 at 7:59, Greg Louis wrote:

> Wouldn't the binaries be humungous?  If I link bogofilter statically on
> linux/glibc-2.2.5 I get a size of 3,675,399 bytes.  Stripped, it's
> still 1,273,468.  That compares with 245,376 for the dynamically-linked
> version.
> 

OK it's big - but not as big as the wordlists. And after all, most machines 
can find room for a 1 Mbyte app.

I would not mind the extra space in exchenge for peace of mind
- I won't have to worry when the OS changes on the mail server
(it is outsourced - so no control over it).-- 
Peter Bishop 
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