Edward Diener wrote:
Yea, but whether as two separate file or one file, the size is still twice as large. E.g. if on a typical Linux system, just one application uses wide version, you have to install both wide and narrow version. Here on my box, the size of /usr/lib in 1.2G. Making it into 2.4G does not seem right ;-)
Why would you install both a narrow character version and a wide character version if you are only going to use one or the other ? Of course if you have applications which use both, you need to install both, but that doesn't make every application twice as large.
I had in mind situation where there are two applications -- one which uses narrow version and another which uses wide version. If each library is used by several apps -- which is likely, and not all those apps agree and narrow/wide question, you really need to install two versions for each library. - Volodya