Matthias Saou wrote: I tried to repackage Red Carpet for > freshrpms.net, but gave up and moved on after seeing all the nasty things > Ximian does to build it (plenty of static liking... ugh!). I'm fairly certain the static linking is done on purpose: to be able to still run redcarpet, in the aftermath of a biffed-up machine with (possibly) missing shared libraries. -- Rex